Video footage presented an apocalyptic scene along the Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles with smoke, glaring flames and downed power lines.

The 86 souls, and still counting, that roasted at the Dikko junction, in Suleja, Niger State, in a petrol tanker fire may never have heard the song. But surely, they rode the highway to hell.

Wind-whipped flames, downed power lines, and explosions combined to create an apocalyptic scene along the Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles ... described it as “like driving through hell itself”.