{"id":8385,"date":"2013-08-15T07:44:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T07:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/oyo-64-die-in-road-accidents-in-8-weeks\/"},"modified":"2013-08-15T07:44:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T07:44:42","slug":"oyo-64-die-in-road-accidents-in-8-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/oyo-64-die-in-road-accidents-in-8-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Oyo: 64 die in road accidents in 8 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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File photo: A scene of a road accident<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

By Citizens Platform<\/p>\n

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Oyo State on Wednesday said that 64 people lost their lives in various automobile crashes between June and July.<\/span><\/p>\n

Godwin Ogagaoghene, the FRSC State Sector Commander said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He also said that 185 people were injured in the 53 crashes during the period under review.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ogagaoghene, however, said only one life was lost during the recently concluded Sallah holidays between August 6 and August 11.<\/p>\n

He said that 23 people were also injured in seven crashes involving 44 victims during the holidays. The FRSC boss attributed most of the crashes to over-speeding.<\/p>\n

Asked what could be done to minimise accident rate, Ogagaoghene said that motorists must adhere to speed limits, on the highways, at all times.<\/p>\n

\u201cLots of people still over-speed, especially on the expressways and they do this by taking advantage of our logistic challenges at the slightest opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to curb this by devising a new strategy whereby we use our mobile patrol to go ahead of traffic to maintain a set speed limit,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Ogagaoghene added that, to check accidents in the \u201cember\u2019\u2019 months, the FRSC would flag-off a series of sensitisation campaigns to check over-speeding by motorists during the period.<\/p>\n

He said the first phase of the campaign, tagged \u201cOperation Shield 3,\u2019\u2019 is scheduled to hold from August 18 to August 25.<\/p>\n

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