FRSC Records 103 Deaths, 221 Road Accidents In Benue News
The state sector commander, Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar who disclosed this in an interview with LEADERSHIP said, at the end of the 2022 Ember Months Campaigns and end of year operations for the safety of commuters the command conducted nine mobile courts to test the level of compliance.
According to him, “a total number of 315 Road Traffic offenders were arrested and arraigned before the Courts and 305 were convicted for various offences and 10 persons were discharged and acquitted.”The sector commander also informed that the operations were focused on over loading, over speeding and the use of bad tyres.
According to him, “Out of the 281 RTC recorded within the state of jurisdiction 1, 586 people were involved, while 859 sustained varying degrees of injuries and 103 lost their lives and we were able to cover the whole state.“With these we will say that generally, the operations went well because we were able to carryout full enforcement of Road Traffic offences as well as rescue operations for road users that were involved in crashes and we were able to cover the whole state.
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