How FG, World Bank reduced road crashes – FRSC

Boboye Oyeyemi, Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), has attributed the reduction in Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) in 2015 by 12.99 per cent to Federal Government and World Bank’s robust support to the commission.

This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja by Mr Bisi Kazeem, Head, Media Relations and Strategy.

According to the statement, Oyeyemi spoke at a conference on ‘Global Road Safety Facility’ holding in Washington, USA. “Because of increased support in 2015, total fatality reduced to 5,044 from 5,991 in 2014, while total RTC reduced to 9,031, compared to 10,380 in 2014, which amounts to 12.99 per cent RTC reduction.”

It said that 5,044 lives were lost to road crashes in 2015, which was 15.88 per cent reduction on the 5,996 lives lost in 2014.

The statement said human injuries as a result of road crashes reduced from 32,063 in 2014 to 27,782 in 2015, which amounts to 13.35 per cent reduction.

The statement noted that Federal Government’s support towards the realisation of the commission’s mandate went a long way in the success recorded in 2015.

It also said that the timely intervention of the World Bank, especially at six critical corridors in the country since 2013 had been of immense help to the commission.

It listed the corridors as: Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano corridor;Benin-Ifon-Akure-Ilesha corridor and Mokwa-Bida-Lambata-Suleja corridor.

Others are: Jos-Bauchi-Gombe corridor,Enugu-Abakaliki- Ikom—Mfum corridor and Abuja metropolis.

It said that the “World Bank supported operation of FRSC with seven units of 70-tonnes capacity heavy duty tow-trucks for removal of major road obstructions.”

The statement reaffirmed the commitment of the commission to regulate movement of 12.76 million registered vehicles (motor vehicles and motorcycles) plying the country’s 204,000km road network.