FRSC urges motorists to avoid overload, speeding to check road crashes
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Road
By Muftau Ogunyemi
Akure, Nov. 9, 2016 (NAN) The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged motorists and road users on the Owo-Akure-Ilesha-Ife road to avoid overload and speeding to reduce the rate of road fatality.
Mr Olu-Mike Olagunju, Assistant Corps Marshall, Administration and Strategy, gave the advice while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Akure during the a 7-day FRSC Special Intervention Patrol.
Olagunju said the Owo-Akure-Ilesha road had witnessed a series of unprecedented road traffic and accidents in recent times, a development he noted claimed many lives.
According to him, a study conducted on the road shows that the accidents may be as a result of bad roads, overload and speeding.
“We need to let the people know that overload is not acceptable because it has a lot of consequences.
“Issues of overload on the Owo-Akure-Ilesha-Ife road will need to be tackled; if tackled, fatality being experienced on the road will be minimised,” he said.
He said that 33 motorists were apprehended, six of who committed overload and another six, speeding and other offences on the first day of patrol.
The assistant corps marshal reminded stakeholders on road management that safety on the road was a collective responsibility.
“We want to remind us that safety is a shared responsibility and should not be left to government agencies alone.
“Not less than 90 per cent of Nigerians use road as their means of transportation, so, safety on the road should be the business of all,” he said.
Olajungu decried the joint of vehicles for conveying goods and passengers, saying that there should be distinctive policy for conveying of goods and commuting.
He, however, urged prospective commuters to examine the state of vehicles they wish to board, as “gone are the days when it was only drivers that are concerned about obedience to traffic regulations.
“Commuters too should know their rights, regarding road regulations and healthy state of the vehicles’’.
Olagunji vowed that the FRSC would not spare any erring personnel of the corps, found violating rules traffic and regulations, stressing that any personnel of the corps caught conniving with road users would be dealt with according to the law.
The assistant cops marshal expressed the continued cooperation of the corps with other uniform agencies and relevant stakeholders to ensure that road accidents were reduced to the barest minimum. (NAN)
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Edited by Dada Ahmed/Tony Nezianya