The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that 1,331 lives have been lost in road crashes on Nigerian roads in the last three months.
This report is contained in the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Road Transport Data (Q2 2018) report released on Tuesday.
The NBS reported that of the total sum of people killed on Nigerian roads, 1,257 (94%) were adults while 74 (6%) were children.
The figure was further broken down as the report revealed that of the total number of Nigerians killed in road crashes 1,047 (79%) were male while 284 (21%) were females killed on Nigerian roads.
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The Bureau of Statistics report further identified over-speeding as the major cause of road crashes in the country within the three months under review.
Read Excerpts from the report below;
“The Q2 2018 road transport data reflected that 2,608 road crashes occurred within the quarter under review. Speed violation is reported as the major cause of road crashes in Q2 and it accounted for 50.65% of the total road crashes reported.
Tyre burst and dangerous driving followed closely as they both accounted for 8.59% and 8.40% of the total road crashes recorded.
The NBS report also further highlighted that 8,437 Nigerians got injured in the road crashes in the country also within the three months under review.
“7,946 of the 8,437 Nigerians that got injured, representing 94% of the figure, are adults while the remaining 491 Nigerians, representing 6% of the figure are children. 6,415 male Nigerians, representing 76%, got injured in road crashes in Q2 while 2,022 female Nigerians, representing 24% got injured.”
It also highlighted the number of National Drivers Licenses issued within the same period under review;
“A total of 221,878 national drivers licenses were produced in Q2 2018. Lagos and FCT produced the highest number of drivers’ licenses while Zamfara and Taraba States produced the least numbers of national drivers’ license.”