1,070 Nigerians died in road accidents in Q3, NBS data reveals

No less than 1,070 Nigerians died in road crashes across the country within the third quarter of 2017, a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed.

The NBS report posted on its website on Wednesday reflected that 2,478 road crashes occurred in Q3 2017.

Speed violation is reported as the major cause of road crashes in Q3 and it accounted for 44.51% of the total road crashes reported.

Loss of control and dangerous driving followed closely as they both accounted for 10.41% and 9.52% of the total road crashes recorded.

A total of 6,803 Nigerians got injured in the road traffic crashes recorded. 6,419 of the 6,803 Nigerians that got injured, representing 94.4% of the figure, are adults while the remaining 384 Nigerians, representing 5.7% of the figure are children. 5,110 male Nigerians, representing 75%, got injured in road crashes in Q3 while 1,693 female Nigerians, representing 25% got injured.

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Of the 1,070 Nigerians that got killed, representing 91.7% of the figure, are adults while the remaining 89 Nigerians, representing 8.3% of the figure are children. 815 male Nigerians, representing 76.2%, got killed in road crashes in Q3 while 255 female Nigerians, representing 23.8% got killed.

Estimated vehicle population in Nigeria as at Q3 2017 was put at 11,547,236 with the total population of the country put at 193,392,517 in 2016.

Nigeria s vehicle per population ratio is put at 0.06. Data on the category of vehicles involved in road crashes in Q3 2017 reflected that 58% of vehicles are commercial (2,000), 40.6% are private (1,401), 1.4% are government (48) and the remaining are diplomat (0).

FCT Recorded the highest number of road crashes in Q3 2017 closely followed by Kaduna and Kogi States while Borno and Bayelsa States recorded the least.

A total of 200,565 national drivers licenses were produced in Q3 2017. Lagos and FCT produced the highest number of drivers licenses while Zamfara and Kebbi States produced the least numbers of national drivers license.

Similarly, a total of 75,958 vehicle number plates were produced in Q3 2017. Delta and FCT state produced the highest number of vehicle plate numbers while Ekiti and Rivers States produced the least numbers of vehicle plate numbers in Q3 2017.

 

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