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

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 additionally stated that 118,720 Nigerians had been injured in accidents that occurred throughout the interval underneath evaluation.

Ezeoma made the figures accessible on Monday whereas briefing journalists and different stakeholders on the 2026 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.

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

Ezeoma, who stated that street site visitors crashes wreaked havoc on victims, their households and buddies, identified that it was the collective duty of all Nigerians to help the FRSC in stopping recklessness and making the roads safer for each consumer.

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

” The information abstract above is evident as pace and human recklessness stay our greatest killers. The mild we lit every time our relative dies reminds us that each time we exceed the pace restrict, we danger placing out one other mild eternally,” Ezeoma cautioned.

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 visit victims of road crashes in selected hospitals in the state, saying that the visit was to empathize with the victims and to share in their pains.

She further appealed to the media, Abia transport unions and religious leaders to support FRSC crusades for safer roads.