Niger Road Crash: FRSC warns against night travels
FRSC corps marshal Shehu Mohammed has called on stakeholders and the motoring public to join FRSC in cautioning their subjects against night travels.
Mr Mohammed, who made the call in a statement by the agency’s spokesman, Olusegun Ogungbemide, on Monday in Abuja, also urged the public to stop using unsafe means of transportation.
The corps marshal was reacting to the reports of a fatal road mishap that occurred at KM 02, Koriagi village, Agaei, Lapai-Bida route, Niger. He said the accident was a result of a speed violation.
He said that the crash happened at exactly 4:40 a.m. on Sunday and involved 55 male adults. He said that 37 passengers were killed while 18 were rescued with various degrees of injuries.
The crash involved four vehicles: a DAF tanker, two DAF trucks and a Toyota car. The tanker, loaded with petrol, was travelling from Lagos to Kano and was reportedly driving against the legal speed limit when the driver lost control of the wheels and fell on the highway.
The impact resulted in an inferno that burnt down the vehicle. While the trailer was in flames, another DAF truck conveying cows and humans also crashed into the burning tanker.
The FRSC boss, however, said that the corps had risen to the challenge of confronting the bad road use behaviour on all fronts since he assumed office in May.
According to him, this gesture led to a high level of partnership between the FRSC, leadership of the various transport unions, security agencies, as well as state traffic management agencies.
(NAN)
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