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Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has hinted that 3,433 persons were killed and 22,162 others injured successful 6,858 reported roadworthy crashes successful the past 9 months.
The corps marshal of FRSC, Shehu Mohammed, revealed this astatine the flag-off of the 2025 Ember Months Public Enlightenment and Sensitisation Campaign successful Abuja.
Mohammed said the large causes of the crashes were operator fatigue, overloading of persons, conveyance of persons successful haulage vehicles and travelling with substance successful integrative containers.
On the campaign, helium said, “The Ember months run is simply a yearly contented done which the Federal Road Safety Corps intensifies its advocacy and nationalist consciousness connected the request for safer roadworthy use. As we are each aware, the ember months are a play marked by accrued travel, higher postulation measurement and an attendant emergence successful roadworthy clang injuries and fatalities.
“The taxable reinforces the presumption that quality factors are 1 of the large causes of roadworthy crashes. It besides draws attraction to the information that drivers are mostly liable for crashes connected our highways. Apparently, operator behaviour is simply a cardinal constituent successful determining information connected our highways.
“It is expected that the 2025 end-of-year run volition make the needed consciousness and sensitisation for drivers to instrumentality up the contented of information much seriously.
“Therefore, the prime of the 2025 End-of-Year run theme, ‘Taking Responsibility for Your Safety’ was deliberate and good thought-out.
“It was cautiously chosen to code roadworthy postulation infringements by drivers, which were mostly liable for the erstwhile roadworthy clang records,” Mohammed said.
He added that 2024 “Operation Zero”, which was betwixt December 15, 2024 to January 15, 2025, showed a alteration successful the fig of deaths recorded.
According to him, 432 persons were killed; 2,070 persons were injured of the 533 reported cases of roadworthy crashes during that period.
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