Mohammed Shosanya
The Federal Road Safety Corps has recorded a decline in the total number of road traffic crashes, total number of injuries and fatalities as well in the first half of the year,compared with the same period in 2022.
Bisi Kazeem,Assistant Corps MarshalCorps Public Education Officer,FRSC Headquarters, Abuja,quoted in a statement that,within the period under consideration, the Corps recorded a total of 5,700 road traffic crashes as against 6,627 in the same period in the year 2022, representing 14% decrease.
It said,between January and June 2023, the Corps also achieved 14% reduction in number of people rescued with injuries, having rescued a total of 16,716 in 2023 against 19,440 injured victims in the first half of the year 2022.
The Corps also recorded significant reduction within the operational period in the number of people killed.
According to the statement,in the first six months of the year 2023, the Corps recorded a total of 2,850 fatalities as against 3,375 in the same period in 2022, representing 15.5% reduction.
The statement quoted the Corps Marshal to have attributed this modest achievement to a number of strategies and innovations in enforcement activities, improved presence and visibility, public enlightenment and partners engagement.
Charging drivers to desist from bad driving behaviours, Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu re-emphasised the commitment of the Corps towards achieving it’s corporate mandate of sanitizing the highways and entrenching safety on the nations over 200,000 kilometers road network.