The Federal Road Safety Corps says no fewer than 253 people have been killed in road crashes in the past 10 months in Ogun State.
This is just as the FRSC warned the construction companies handling various road projects in the state to put in place adequate warning signs at construction sites or risk being sanctioned.
The corps said the 253 deaths were recorded as a result of road accidents which occurred in the state between January and October this year.
The state FRSC Sector Commander, Mr. Adegoke Adetunji, said this at a press conference organised to mark the 2013 Africa Road Safety/World Day for the remembrance of accident victims in Abeokuta.
Adetunji, however, noted that the FRSC had reduced the number of deaths resulting from road crashes in the state in line with the directives of the United Nations to bring it down by 50 per cent.
He said 405 deaths were recorded from road crashes in the state last year.
The sector commander urged road users to be safety conscious, stressing that the state FRSC would embark on aggressive road traffic control and operation of mobile courts for the prosecution of offenders.
He said, “We are already in the “ember” months, there is need for us to be safety conscious so that we can have a disaster free passage to 2014.”
Adetunji also delivered the message of the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Osita Chidoka, who said that 1.3 million people died in road crashes across the world annually.
According to him, it has been revealed that unless immediate and effective action is taken, road traffic injuries are to become the fifth leading cause of deaths in the world resulting into an estimated 2.4 million deaths a year.”
He said, “Road accidents are caused by certain actions we take on the highways and while the church remains prayerful, there is also the need for us to obey traffic rules and regulations. Praying and driving on used tyres at 130km per hour is like tempting God.”
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