Data shows 1,538 Nigerians, including 116 children, died in road accidents between October and December 2018. Read more: Nigeria ICYMI
The NBS Road Transport Data for the fourth Quarter, 2018 posted on its website said a total of 2,532 road accidents were recorded in the period under review.
The report said that 93 per cent of the 8,406 injured persons were adult, while the remaining seven per cent were children. It, however, attributed speed violation as the major cause of road accidents in the fourth quarter, 2018 which accounted for 52 per cent of the total road accidents reported. In addition, the report said estimated vehicle population in the country as at fourth quarter, 2018 was put at 11.82 million with the total population estimate of the country put at 198 million in 2018.Meanwhile, data on the category of vehicles involved in road accidents in the quarter reflected that 60.18 per cent of vehicles were commercial .
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