FRSC Boss Expresses Displeasure and Sadness Over the Death of 19 Road Users
Despite the efforts put in place by the Federal Road Safety Corps to reduce carnage’s on the nation’s highways, the Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Shehu Mohammed has expressed displeasure over the alarming rate of recklessness of drivers who have continued to contravene established traffic regulations and causing undue harm to lives and unprecedented destruction to properties.
The Corps Marshal stated this in the wake of a fatal road traffic crash that occured at Kanbi village, on the Olooru new Jebba road in Kwara State at exactly 2000HRS on Thursday 13 June, 2024.
Preliminary investigation reveal that the crash which occured as a result of excessive speed and wrongful overtaking involved 2 vehicles; a blue Iveco trailer with no trace of registration and a white Toyota Hiace bus with registration number LSD363YE.
A total of 25 people were involved, comprising of 13 male adults, 5 female adults, 2 female children and 5 male children. From this number, 5 people were injured (3 male adults and 2 female adults), and 19 victims killed (11 male adults, 3 female adults,3 male children, and 2 female children.
The injured victims have been rescued to Orisun Ayo hospital, 1 corpse was deposited at the morgue of the same hospital while the remaining 18 dead bodies were claimed by the families of the deceased.
You would recall that in recent time, apart from setting up an Inter-agency Joint Task Force to tackle the excesses of trailer drivers, the Corps equally enhanced its enlightenment campaigns as well as ensured robust engagement of stakeholders, especially the various transport unions all in a bit to curb this ugly occurrences.
It is therefore unfortunate that irrespective of all the efforts in place, some drivers have decided not to adhere to safety standards as such compromising the safety of innocent Road Users.
In line with his 2024 agenda for drastic reduction in road carnage’s, the Corps Marshal has directed Commanding Officers to intensify special patrol operations against these identified violations.
Signed:
Olusegun Ogungbemide, mni, FISPON
Corps Commander
Ag. Corps Public Education Officer
FRSC Headquarters
Abuja.
14 June, 2024.
