Accident claimed 300 lives in Ogun state in 2021, says road safety corps commander
The Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), Ogun State Command has disclosed that over 300 lives were lost, as well as 1,200 people involved in the various road accidents with over 200 vehicles involved in the state in 2021.
Penpushing reports that, the Sector Commander, Ahmed Umar, made this known in a statement pointing out that speed violation which was due to human error accounted for over 77 per cent of accidents in the state in 2021.
The Command in a statement by the Public Education Officer and Route Commander, Florence Okpe, disclosed that Sienna vehicles popularly called space buses had high involvement in the crashes during the year under review.
“The year 2021 was characterised by an upsurge in Road Traffic Crashes in Ogun state.Against this backdrop, the FRSC in Ogun has initiated plans to reduce Road Traffic Crashes .The command will deploy Radar Guns for speed detection and control’, Umar said.
“Also, it will sustain the enforcement of the installation of Speed Limiting Devices in commercial vehicles as a whole and by extension Sienna vehicles which have been observed to have high involvement in crashes’, he added.
‘The enforcement which is scheduled to take effect as soon as possible, will be collaboratively carried out with other sister agencies like the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police among others.The operation is scheduled to hold across the state especially the major corridors. Radar guns will be used to check the speed of vehicles and detect any erring motorists,” he said.
Penpushing also reports that, he advised commercial motorists especially owners of Sienna vehicles to install speed limiting devices in their vehicles and desist from acts that could pose as threats to them and other road users.
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