Monday, 26 January 2015

257 persons died in 439 road accidents in 2014-Mr Boboye Oyeyemi

The Corps Marshal of the Fedral Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, has revealed that  257 persons died in 439 road accidents in 2014.Mr Boboye said speed violation was top on the causes accounting for about 50 per cent of the accidents.
He said there was need for enforcement of speed limits, especially for commercial operators and this, he said, would commence on June 1.
He warned that 2015 would be a year of intense enforcement, saying that the corps’ target for the year is to further reduce road accidents in the country by 20 percent and deaths resulting from accidents by 30 per cent.

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