About 477 persons sustained various degrees of injuries, according to the agency.
in Edo State says no few than 113 deaths were recorded in the state from Road Traffic Crashes between January and September 2022.Mr Benemaisia, who disclosed this at the flag-off of the “Ember Months” campaign in the state, said that the deaths were recorded from about 193 crashes.
According to him, about 477 persons sustained various degrees of injuries, adding that the figures were alarming. He called for concerted effort amongst all to curb the carnage. In addition, he explained that impatience on the part of drivers had to do with the lack of time management and planning, “whereas indiscipline is characterised by dangerous driving, wrongful overtaking, indiscriminate parking, route violation, poor vehicle maintenance, excessive speeding, overloading, driving with worn-out tyres, distracted driving attitude and others.
The sector commander noted that though people had given bad connotations to the Ember months and made them sound dreadful, they were, however, just like other months.