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FRSC Corps Marshall Oyeyemi
The Federal Road Safety
Corps (FRSC) has said that 9, 698 accidents were recorded in 2019 leading to 4,
737 deaths.
FRSC Corps Marshall,
Boboye Oyeyemi stated this, on Thursday, while addressing journalists in Abuja,
the nation’s capital.
“Available data to the
corps revealed that between January and October 2019, a total of 9, 698 road
traffic crashes were recorded out of which 4,737 people were recorded dead.
“We have 30, 744 people
sustained various degrees of injury to 68, 193 people involved. 63, 456 were
rescued. More disheartening is that the nation has to grapple with the
worrisome challenges of crashes involving the articulated vehicles in the year
2019,” he stated.
Oyeyemi stated that his
agency is worried about the challenges of crashes involving trailers and trucks
continued with 900 crashes recorded.
According to him, over
157 thousand traffic offenders were arrested in the third quarter of the year.
(Channels TV)
