Nigeria records 21.4 deaths per 100,000 population from road crashes – Report

…as FRSC, KRSD Foundation propulsion for trauma centre for victims

By Favour Ulebor, Abuja

Nigeria has been ranked among the countries with the highest roadworthy postulation deaths successful Africa, with 21.4 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the World Health Organization’s Global Status Report connected Road Safety 2023.

The fig was highlighted astatine a property briefing connected Tuesday successful Abuja by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and the Kwapda’as Road Safety Demand (KRSD) Foundation, wherever some organisations besides announced plans to found a trauma centre for families of clang victims.

The briefing besides unveiled the upcoming International Road Crash Victims’ African Conference (IRCVAC) 2025, scheduled for November, coinciding with the KRSD Foundation’s 14th anniversary.

Founder of KRSD, Hon. Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, said the conference, themed “Gathering Africa and the World for Road Crash Victims”, volition beryllium the archetypal African forum dedicated to roadworthy clang victims and their families.

Dongban-Mensem, who founded the organisation successful 2011 aft losing her lad successful a crash, said KRSD has go a starring dependable for victims done campaigns, outreaches, and school-based roadworthy information education.

She stressed that Nigeria’s roadworthy information situation has reached situation level, citing FRSC information that speeding and nonaccomplishment of power origin much than fractional of roadworthy crashes nationwide.

According to her, the National Bureau of Statistics recorded 5,081 crashes successful conscionable 3 months of 2023, resulting successful 2,466 deaths and implicit 15,000 injuries, portion FRSC information for Q1 2024 reported 2,733 crashes, 1,624 deaths, and much than 8,000 injuries.

Quoting the WHO report, she said: “Nigeria has 1 of the highest roadworthy postulation decease rates successful Africa and the world, astatine 21.4 deaths per 100,000 population. This is not conscionable a statistic—it means thousands of families are devastated each year. The fig is importantly higher than some the planetary and African averages.”

She added that the study underscores Nigeria’s request for a stronger nationalist strategy targeting captious hazard factors specified arsenic speeding, drunk driving, and non-use of seatbelts and helmets, aligning with FRSC’s findings.

“IRCVAC 2025 is not conscionable an lawsuit but a level for victims and their families,” she said. “It is astir ensuring their experiences signifier solutions and their voices thrust advocacy, successful enactment with the planetary Vision Zero and Safe Systems Approach, which state that nary roadworthy decease is acceptable.”

FRSC Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, noted that roadworthy crashes origin astir 1.2 cardinal deaths globally each year, with women and children often suffering the worst consequences—both physically and emotionally.

He said the Corps is moving with partners to found a nationalist trauma centre to supply aesculapian and psychosocial enactment for victims and bereaved families.

Ahead of the November conference, organisers announced symbolic pre-events, including a cycling rally, walking exercise, and play tournament, to rise consciousness and beforehand safer mobility.

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