19,236 Nigerians died in street crashes in 4 years – FRSC

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By Linda Ikeji
10 November 2026, 7:53 am

The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, Abia State Command, Ngozi Ezeoma, has disclosed that 19,236 Nigerians died in 37,789 street crashes that occurred from January 2023 to September 2026.

She added that 118,720 Nigerians had been injured in accidents that occurred inside the interval underneath evaluation.

Ezeoma disclosed this on Monday, November 9, whereas briefing journalists and different stakeholders on the 2026 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

She mentioned that the figures got here from FRSC’s Road Traffic Database Management System.

Ezeoma mentioned: “These numbers are more than just statistics as they represent human lives, families in grief and communities in distress.

“The knowledge abstract above is obvious as velocity and human recklessness stay our greatest killers. The gentle we lit every time our relative dies reminds us that each time we exceed the velocity restrict, we danger placing out one other gentle perpetually.”

She noted that the third week of every November is set aside by the United Nations to remember the victims of road crashes.

The Abia FRSC Sector Commander disclosed that the Command would go to victims of street crashes in chosen hospitals within the state, saying that the go to was to empathize with the victims and to share of their pains.