An average of 427 Nigerians die monthly in road traffic accidents. This brings to a total of 12,797 Nigerians killed in road traffic crashes in 30 months.
According to the latest report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in 2016, a total of 5,053 Nigerians died in road accidents while in 2017, a total of 5,121 Nigerians died in road accidents.
The data further showed that in the first six months of this year, 2,623 Nigerians have perished on road traffic accidents across Nigeria.
The second quarter 2018 road transport data released yesterday by the NBS reflected that road traffic accidents killed a total of 1,331 Nigerians in the second quarter of 2018, up from the 1,292 Nigerians killed in the second quarter of the year.
The NBS had previously reported that a total of 1,306 Nigerians were killed by road traffic crashes in the final quarter of 2017.
The report showed that 2,608 road crashes occurred within the second quarter of 2018.
Speed violation is reported as the major cause of road crashes in the second quarter of 2018 and it accounted for 50.65 percent of the total road crashes reported.
Tyre burst and dangerous driving followed closely as they both accounted for 8.59 percent and 8.40 percent of the total road crashes recorded.
The report also showed that a total of 8,437 Nigerians got injured in the road traffic crashes recorded, out of which, 7,946, representing 94 percent, were adults while the remaining 491 Nigerians, representing 6 percent were children.
Further breakdown showed that 6,415 male Nigerians, representing 76 percent, got injured in road crashes in the second quarter of 2018 while 2,022 female Nigerians, representing 24 percent got injured.
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