Three road crashes claim 91 lives in one month – FRSC

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Shehu Mohammed has said that 3 landmark crashes were recorded by the agency, claiming the lives of 91 radical successful the past 1 month.

Speaking connected Thursday during a property briefing and gathering with stakeholders successful Abuja, the Corps Marshal explained that the crashes included 1 that occurred successful Niger State connected the 8th of September this twelvemonth that claimed 48 lives, different successful Sabon Wuse connected 12 September that claimed 18 lives and different successful Kaduna State connected 15 September, claiming 25 lives.

He noted that the grounds called for concern, saying that the 3 crashes proved to person been evidently avoidable.

Mohammed expressed interest that portion the authorities was doing its champion to supply and support transport facilities successful accordance with planetary champion practices, immoderate roadworthy users, particularly drivers, person continued to marque a mockery of the efforts by exhibiting a precocious level of recklessness connected the roads starring to the nonaccomplishment of lives.

Mohammed stressed that a peculiar patrol cognition volition beryllium instituted and enforcement would beryllium carried retired nationwide and directed commanding officers of the corps to guarantee circular the timepiece enforcement of postulation offences truthful arsenic to mitigate the excesses immediately.

The Corps Marshal explained that the gathering was to code the existent roadworthy information challenges specified arsenic carrying inflammable substances, nighttime trips, speeding, overloading and their devastating effects connected the nation’s highways and expressed the anticipation that roadworthy crashes would drastically trim by the extremity of the twelvemonth aft the meeting.

He observed that the challenges were a menace to the nationalist wellness run and determination was a request for corporate enactment against roadworthy carnage connected the highways.

Chief Buruche Julius, who represented Luxurious Buses Association, explained that their buses preferred to question astatine nighttime due to the fact that the roads were escaped astatine nighttime to alteration them to question conveniently.

He stated that the roads were successful a atrocious signifier owed to respective portholes, saying that the assorted vehicles travelling successful the time clip made the roads busy, hence nighttime travels were faster and safer for the luxurious buses arsenic they hardly recorded crashes.

President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Alh. Abubakar Maigandi Shettima, portion speaking to newsmen, stated that tanker drivers person been advised respective times not to thrust successful the nighttime which they tried to adhere to.

He observed that sometimes the accidents were caused owed to the atrocious roads but assured that the tanker drivers would ever beryllium sensitised to bash the close happening and debar crashes.