FRSC: 38 killed in Eid-al-Adha auto accidents — 53% drop from 2022 figure | TheCable
Bisi Kazeem, FRSC public education officer, said in a statement that the agency also recorded a 53% decrease in the number of people killed in road accidents compared to the previous year’s celebration.Kazeem added that those figures were a reduction from 118 road accidents, 88 mortalities and 373 wounded people recorded during the celebration in 2022.The statement said, “4116 offenders were apprehended over 4682 offences committed across 2053 routes covered by the corps”.
“In the special patrol operation that lasted for six days, the corps recorded a total of 88 RTCs as against 118 of the same period in 2022, representing a 25% reduction.“In the same vein, a total of 38 people were killed, against 88 in the previous year representing a 53% decrease, while 211 people got injured in 2023 against 373 in 2022, representing a 43% decrease.
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