Road accidents: 32,617 lives lost in 6 years — FRSC
A total of 32,617 persons lost their lives to road traffic crashes in Nigeria from 2016 to 2021, resulting from 65,053 accidents across the country. Mr Ayobami Omiyade, Assistant Federal Road Safety Corps Marshal (retd), disclosed this while speaking at a retreat at the agency’s zonal office in Ojodu, Lagos, yesterday. Speaking at the retreat, entitled "Promotion of strategic partnership for innovating road safety intervention in Lagos and Ogun states: Zone RS2 Lagos View Point," Omiyade said 200,784 people were also injured in the accidents during the period. According to the statistics, 5,053 lives were lost in 2016, while 5,121 and 5,181 lives were lost in 2017 and 2018 respectively. In 2019 and 2020, about 5,483 and 5,574 lives were also lost respectively while 6,205 died in 2021 which accounted for highest accident rates and loss of lives. He also disclosed that combined road traffic crashes statistics for Zone RS2 comprising Lagos and Ogun showed that 449 a...