Report indicates that not less than 79,875 cases of road accidents have been reported in Nigeria in the last three years.
Official documents obtained by the Economic Confidential showed that
the figure represents the total accidents that occurred between 2013 and
2015.
Out of this figure, a total of 29,494 occurred in 2013 with 13,021
cases reported as fatal, 8,917 cases were reported as serious, while the
balance of 7,556 cases were designated as minor according to reports
obtained by this magazine with careful analysis.
Ogun state however leads all other states in the reported cases of
road crashes with 6422, followed by Lagos state with 6231, Kano came
third with 4869, FCT is number four with 4700 cases while the number
five position was grabbed by Edo state with 3499. The state with the
least number of cases of road crashes in the year under review is Jigawa
with 725.
In the year 2014, the reported cases of accidents amounts to 25,427
out of which 11,665 were fatal, 7,561 were serious and 6,201 cases
regarded as minor. The figure for 2014 was however lower than that of
2013 by almost 4000 due to road traffic management sensitisation carried
out by the combined efforts of both the police and the Federal Road
Safety Commission, FRSC.
In the years 2015, the total road accidents recorded was 24,954,
again below the figure for 2014. Out of this figure, 11,507 cases were
fatal, 7,390 were regarded serious while the balance of 6057 were
treated as minor.
Investigations by the Economic Intelligence magazine further revealed
that the total number of persons involved in accidents within the
period under review reached an all time high of 49,867.
Of this figure, 15, 011 persons were killed in the road crashes while the remaining 34,856 were injured.
Of those killed in the accidents, 5539 were for 2013, 4430 for 2014 while the balance of 5042 were those for 2015.
Out of the figure of those injured which was 34,856, 12,372 were for
2013, 12,227 was for 2014 while the remaining figure of 10,257 were for
2015!
A careful analysis by Economic Confidential indicate that out of
79,875 reported cases of accidents, reckless driving accounted for 30.3
per cent, inexperience and mechanical fault accounted for 21.5 per cent
while road defects accounted for 21.1 per cent .
Further search by our investigating team showed that a motorcycle to
motorcycle collision, motorcycle to vehicle crashes and vehicle to
vehicle accidents are the lead types and have resulted in 38.9 per cent,
37.5 per cent and 14.9 per cent respectively of the total of 15,100
deaths recorded within the period of under review.
Furthermore, it was also revealed that heavy duty vehicles, minibuses
and taxis accounted for most of the accidents with 94.7 per cent of the
total accidents.
Culled from: Premium Times
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