The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC has disclosed that 19,236 Nigerians died in 37,789 road crashes recorded from January 2023 to September 2026.
The Sector Commander of the Corps, Abia State Command, Ngozi Ezeoma made the figures available on Monday while briefing journalists and other stakeholders on the 2026 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
She further said that 118,720 Nigerians were injured in accidents that occurred within the same period, pointed out that the figures came from FRSC’s Road Traffic Database Management System.
She explained that the third week of every November is set aside by the United Nations to remember the victims of road crashes.
“Road traffic crashes wreaked havoc on victims, their families and friends, it is a collective responsibility of all Nigerians to support the FRSC in stopping recklessness and making the roads safer for every user.
“These numbers are more than just statistics as they represent human lives, families in grief and communities in distress.
“The data summary above is clear as speed and human recklessness remain our biggest killers. The light we lit each time our relative dies reminds us that every time we exceed the speed limit, we risk putting out another light forever,” Ezeoma said.
The Sector Commander stated 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.
Ezeoma appealed to the media, transport unions in the state and religious leaders to support FRSC crusades for safer roads.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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