Road crashes reduced by 33% at Christmas – FRSC

Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said that road crashes across the country was reduced by 33 percent during the Christmas period.

This is contained in a statement signed by Bisi Kazeem, head, media relations and strategy in the commission and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.

Kazeem said the reduction was a “testimony to the robust efforts’’ of the FRSC to stem crashes on the nation’s roads during the festive period, saying, however, that the commission recorded 113 road traffic crashes within one week of patrol across the country.

He said: “113 road traffic crashes were recorded on the roads between December 19 and December 26, compared with 169 recorded during the same time last year, which shows reduction of 33 percent.

“Similarly, 86 lives were lost as at Saturday compared to 109 lost within same period last year. This shows improvement of 21 percent in FRSC’s efforts to save lives on the roads.

“422 people were injured within the period this year, which amounts to 30 per cent improvement in operation when compared with 606 people that were injured last year.

“Also, 934 people were involved in crashes within the period under review, compared with 1,284 involved last year within the same period, while 426 people were rescued this year unlike 570 last year.”