No fewer than 120 persons were killed in
road crashes across the country between December 19 and 28, 2014, the
Federal Road Safety Corps said on Monday.
The figure, according to the corps,
translates to 42 percent reduction when compared to 2013 figure of 208
within the same period.
The Corps Public Education Officer, Imoh Etuk, said this in a statement on the FRSC yuletide patrol.
He said, “The reduction in the crash
figures between 2013 and 2014 is a fall-out of the Corps’ massive
deployment of personnel and logistics along critical corridors based on
intelligence derived from the 2013 yuletide operations.”
The corps said it also recorded 48
percent reduction in the number of road traffic crashes within the
period, which stood at 193 in comparison with 368 road crashes in 2013
while a 53 percent reduction was also recorded in injuries in 2014 with
733 injured persons as against the 2013 figure of 1,564.
Details of the 2014 fatality figures
indicated that while 96 males, 17 females and 7 children made up the 120
deaths, the year 2013 posted 208 deaths comprising 155 males, 33
females and 20 children.
In the same vein, the 2014 figure of 193
road traffic crashes comprised 62 fatal, 115 serious and 15 minor
reported cases while the 2013 figure of 368 comprised 113 fatal, 225
serious and 30 minor reported cases of road traffic crashes in December,
2014.
On injuries, the Corps also explained
that the 2014 figure of 733 comprised 432 males, 185 females and 116
children while the 2013 figure of 1,564 injured persons included 1, 041
males, 384 females and 139 children.
The Corps Public Education Officer stated
that the FRSC arraigned 1,073 traffic offenders out of 9,858 arrested
for contravening 10,876 traffic-related offences.
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