Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) said on Wednesday that it has recorded a massive decline in the number of fatalities, road crashes, and victims injured in the first six months of 2023.
The Corps Marshal attributed this modest achievement to a number of strategies and innovations in enforcement activities, improved presence and visibility, public enlightenment, and partners’ engagement.
Disclosing this in Abuja on Wednesday, the Assistant Corps Marshal Corps Public Education Officer, FRSC Headquarters, Bisi Kazeem said according to the FRSC road traffic crash dashboard, within the period under consideration, indicated that a total of 5,700 road traffic crashes were recorded as against 6,627 in the same period in the year 2022, representing 14 percent decrease.
In the same vein, from January to June 2023, the Corps also achieved a 14 percent reduction in the number of people rescued with injuries, having rescued a total of 16,716 in 2023 against 19,440 injured victims in the first half of the year 2022.
On the number of people killed, the Corps also recorded a significant reduction within the operational period.
According to the crash data report, in the first six months of the year 2023, the Corps recorded a total of 2,850 fatalities as against 3,375 in the same period in 2022, representing a 15.5 percent reduction.
While charging drivers to desist from bad driving behaviours, Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu reemphasized the commitment of the Corps towards achieving its corporate mandate of sanitizing the highways and entrenching safety on the nation’s over 200,000 kilometers of road network.
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