Boboye Oyeyemi, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, said the country had lost 345,512 lives to road traffic crashes between 1960 and 2015.
This was contained in a statement on Thursday in Abuja by Bisi Kazeem, the Head of Media Relations and Strategy of the FRSC.
According to the statement, Oyeyemi said this on Wednesday at the annual briefing with the World Bank in Washington, US on impact of the bank’s support to the commission.
The statement said: “Between 1960 and 2015, 1,114,980 road traffic crashes were recorded nationwide, 1,176,089 were injured while 345,512 people died as a result of road crashes during the period.
“The corps marshal told the gathering that the Federal Government and World Bank’s support had been instrumental in stemming road traffic crashed in the country.”
It said that 11,382 deaths from 37,092 was the highest number of deaths and occurred in 1982.
According to the statement, 12,769,529 vehicles currently ply Nigerian roads.
It said this development necessitated the bank’s decision to complement Federal Government’s efforts in attaining global road safety standard.
Oyeyemi said the bank’s intervention on critical corridors had been yielding fruits, especially in terms of safety on those corridors, adding that the percentage of crash fatalities had been falling since 2013.
He commended World Bank’s sustained efforts in building the capacity of personnel of the commission through local and foreign training.
According to the statement, the assistance is helping FRSC on its path to global leadership in road safety management.
The statement said that the corps marshal boss told the gathering that the commission had established a road signage production plant so that the country could conform with global standard.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the World Bank provided 11 life-support ambulances to the commission.
It also sponsored 30 officers of the commission on training on efficient road safety management. while also intervening in safety management on some critical corridors in the country.
The critical corridors included Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano, Benin-Ifon-Akure-Ilesha and Mokwa-Bida-Lambata-Suleja.
Others were Jos-Bauchi-Gombe corridor, Enugu-Abakaliki- Ikom-Mfum corridor and Abuja metropolis.
NAN.
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