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Maintain 30km/hr speed limit to stay alive, FRSC to motorists
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Motorists advised to apply 30km/hr speed limit on streets
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It plans to use the 6
th UN Global Road Safety Week, to run from 17 to 23 May, to advance its campaign for statewide speed limit.
Sector commander of FRSC in Bauchi, Yusuf Abdullahi, said, “The Week advocates for safer streets motoring by making 30 km/h speed limits, the norm for cities worldwide in places where people mix with traffic.
“The Week is concerned about policy commitments at national and local levels to deliver the 30 km/h speed limits in urban areas and to generate local support for such low-speed measures in order to create safe, healthy traffic flow within Urban cities globally.
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Akwa Ibom State Command says 12 persons died in road crashes across the state between January and April 2021.
The Command added that it recorded seven fatal crashes while 29 persons were injured between the period under review.
The FRSC Sector Commander, Matthew Olonisaye, disclosed this to journalists in Uyo at an occasion to mark the 6th United Nations Global Road Safety Week which commenced on May 17 with the theme; ‘Street for Life.’
Olonisaye who attributed the road crashes to excessive speeding stressed that the Corps has put in place several measures to ensure reduction of speed-related crashes adding that the year’s theme calls for 30km/h speed limits for vehicles at built-up areas such as cities, towns and villages.
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Speeding above limit, major cause of accidents in Anambra FRSC
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Mr Adeoye Irelewuyi, Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Anambra, says driving above the speed limit is one of the major causes of accidents in the state.
Irelewuyi made this known at a news conference on Monday in Awka to begin the Sixth United Nations Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW).
He, however, called for a low-speed limit of 30 kilometres per hour in cities and built-up areas to reduce incessant road traffic accidents in the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the UNGRSW is a biennial global road safety campaign to raise awareness of road safety and make changes that will reduce the number of road deaths.
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