According to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), 15.5 percent fewer people died in traffic accidents in the first half of 2023.
This is stated in a statement made public on Wednesday in Abuja by the FRSC’s spokesperson, Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem.
According to Kazeem, the corps recorded a total of 5,700 road traffic collisions (RTCs), down from 6,627 over the same time period the year before in 2022.
According to the FRSC road traffic crash dashboard, there was a 14% decrease in RCTs throughout the time period under consideration.
He claims that between January and June, the corps saw a 14% decrease in the number of rescued victims who had injuries.
In contrast to the 19,440 people injured in accidents during the same time period in 2022, the corps saved 16,716 accident survivors overall in 2023, he continued.
“Within the same operational period under review, the corps also recorded a significant reduction in the number of fatalities,”
“According to the crash data report, the corps recorded a total of 2,850 fatalities in the first half of the year 2023 as opposed to 3,375 fatalities in the same period in 2022, representing a 15.5% reduction,” he stated.
According to Kazeem, the FRSC Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, credited a number of methods and improvements in enforcement practises for the small success.
In the time under review, he claimed, there had been an improvement in the FRSC staff’s presence and visibility, as well as in the public’s awareness of and interaction with the organisation.
Biu urged drivers to abandon unsafe driving practises and added that the Corps would continue to monitor traffic violations and handle them.
He said that this could be accomplished by sanitising the roads and enforcing safety principles and practises along the nation’s more than 200,000 kilometres of roads.
