15 People Die Daily in Road Crashes in Nigeria – NBS

Fri, Aug 4, 2017 | By publisher


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|  By Anayo Ezugwu  |  Aug 14, 2017 @ 01:00 GMT  |

THE National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said that 1,279 persons were killed and another 8,270 injured in 2,503  road accidents between January and June in the country this year. This implies that an average of 15 people died each day in the first six months of 2017 in road accidents across the country.

The report shows that the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, in spite of its obvious better road network, recorded the highest number of road crashes in the second quarter of 2017, closely followed by Kaduna and Niger States while Borno and Bayelsa States recorded the least. According to the road transport data released by the NBS, speed violation is reported as the major cause of road crashes and accounted for 44.44 percent of the total road crashes reported.

Loss of control and dangerous driving followed closely as they both accounted for 12.92 percent and 8.06 percent of the total road crashes recorded. A total of 8,270 Nigerians got injured in the road traffic crashes recorded while 7,805 of the 8,270 Nigerians, who got injured, representing 94 percent of the figure, are adults while the remaining 465 Nigerians or six percent of the figure are children.

The demographics also showed that 6,217 male Nigerians, representing 75 percent got injured in road crashes in the second quarter of 2017, while 2,053 female Nigerians representing 25 per cent were injured. Similarly, a total of 1,279 Nigerians got killed in the road traffic crashes recorded in the second quarter, 1,207 of the 1,279 Nigerians who died, representing 94 percent of the figure, are adults while the remaining 72 Nigerians, representing six percent of the figure are children.

Also, 1,022 male Nigerians, representing 80 percent were killed in road crashes in the second quarter of 2017, while 257 female Nigerians, representing 20 percent got killed. Estimated vehicle population in Nigeria as at the second quarter of 2017 was put at 11,506,863 with the total population of the country at 193,392,517 in 2016. Nigeria’s vehicle per population ratio is put at 0.06.

According to the NBS, data on the category of vehicles involved in road crashes in the second quarter of 2017 reflected that 58.59 percent of vehicles are commercial (2,363), 40.22 percent (1,622) are private, 1.14 percent (46) are government and the remaining are diplomatic (2). A total of 218,060 national drivers licences were produced in the second quarter of 2017, with Lagos and FCT producing the highest number of drivers’ licences while Zamfara and Kebbi States produced the least numbers.

Similarly, a total of 110,881 vehicle number plates were produced in the second quarter of 2017. the FCT and Oyo state produced the highest number of vehicle numbers plates while Ogun and Rivers States produced the least numbers of vehicle numbers plates in the second quarter of 2017.

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