No fewer than 120 persons were killed in road crashes
across the country between December 19-28, 2014, the
Federal Road Safety Corps has said.
The figure, according to the corps translates to 42
percent reduction when compared to 2013 figure of 208,
within the same period.
The Corps Public Education Officer, Imoh Etuk, said this
in a statement on the FRSC yuletide patrol,on Monday
in Abuja.
He said, “The reduction in the crashes figures between
2013 and 2014 is a fall-out of the Corps’ massive
deployment of personnel and logistics along critical
corridors based on intelligence derived from 2013
yuletide operations.”
The corps said it also recorded 48 percent reduction in
the number of road traffic crashes within the period,
which stood at 193, in comparison with 368 road
crashes in 2013 while a 53 percent reduction was also
recorded in injuries in 2014 with 733 injured persons as
against the 2013 figure of 1,564.
Details of the 2014 fatality figures indicate that while 96
males, 17 females and 7 children made up the 120
deaths, the year 2013 posted 208 deaths comprising
155 males, 33 females and 20 children.
In the same vein, the 2014 figure of 193 road traffic
crashes comprise 62 fatal, 115 serious and 15 minor
reported cases while the 2013 figure of 368 comprise of
113 fatal, 225 serious and 30 minor reported cases of
road traffic crashes recorded in December,2014.
On injuries, the Corps also explained that the 2014
figure of 733 comprise 432 males, 185 females and 116
children while the 2013 figure of 1,564 injured persons
include 1041 males, 384 females and 139 children.
The Corps Public Education Officer stated that the FRSC
arraigned 1,073 traffic offenders out of 9,858 arrested
for contravening 10,876 traffic-related offences.
He also said that 993 were convicted and paid
appropriate fines while one Abubakar Mohammed was
sent to jail by Chief Magistrate Bello Gelangu at
Kaltungo in Gombe State for refusing to stop when the
Corps’ operatives flagged him down while on patrol.
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