The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, has said that it has recorded a decline in the total number of road traffic crashes, total number of injuries and fatalities in the first half of the year 2023, when compared with the same period in 2022.
In a release issued and signed by Assistant Corps Marshal, Corps Public Education Officer, FRSC Headquarters, Abuja, Bisi Kazeem, the FRSC said that it recorded a total of 5,700 road traffic crashes as against 6,627 in the same period in 2022, representing 14 per cent decrease.
It further said that from January to June 2023, it also achieved 14 per cent reduction in 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 said that it recorded significant reduction within the operational period.
Kazeem said in the statement, “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 per cent reduction.”
The Corps Marshal attributed the modest achievement to a number of strategies and innovations which he said included enforcement activities, improved presence and visibility, public enlightenment and partners engagement.
Charging drivers to desist from bad driving behaviours, the Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu, re-emphasised the commitment of the Corps towards achieving its corporate mandate of sanitizing the highways and entrenching safety on the nations over 200,000-kilometer road network.
