An
official of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), has said that
about 1,048 people were killed in 770 road crashes involving 4,365
tankers and trailers from January to November 2016. Boboye Oyeyemi, who
is the FRSC, made this disclosure on Wednesday, December 7, in Abuja at
an interactive session with stakeholders in the road transport
sector. Oyeyemi said 4,365 people were also injured during the period of
review.
According
to him, crashes involving tankers and trailers had been on the decrease
since 2014 as 1,862 people were killed in that year while 1,285 deaths
were recorded in 2015.
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Times reports that Oyeyemi said the FRSC would continue to put measures
in place to address the challenges and had initiated a new partnership
with relevant stakeholders in road safety to curb them. He urged tanker
owners to put in place safety valve to avoid spillage of content of
tankers in case of crashes. The corps marshal said to regulate safe
practice for effective and safe delivery of liquid hydrocarbon in
Nigeria, FRSC had initiated a safe-to-load programme and deployed 168
personnel to 43 tank farms in Nigeria. He said within one year, 103,201
vehicles had been inspected to determine their level of compliance with
the minimum safety standard and 78,121 met the standard, while 25,080
failed.
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