Stay clear of evening travels, FRSC warns Nigerians

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Highway Basic safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, has advised fleet operators, commercial drivers and private motor vehicle entrepreneurs versus having night journeys.

Mr Oyeyemi, through a assertion by the agency’s spokesperson, Bisi Kazeem, Sunday, lamented climbing instances of street website traffic crashes and fatalities getting recorded at evening.

The FRSC manager noted a January 5 deadly crash in Kabba, Kogi State, wherever two automobiles had a head-on collision.

He reported the incident was brought on by one of the motorists sleeping on the wheel from exhaustion.

He stated night time trips are manufactured unsafe by poor visibility, fatigue, sleeping on the wheel and excessive dashing.

On the January 5 crash, he mentioned:

“The crash included the driver of a white Toyota Hiace bus ( MSA 942 XA) that contravened COVID-19 protocols on physical distancing by overloading the bus with 18 passengers as a substitute of the approved 8 passengers, and a green Iveco trailer ( AKA 788 XC) carrying 07 passengers.

“Out of the 25 travellers on board the two cars, 08 ended up killed even though 17 sustained different injuries.”

Mr Oyeyemi pressured that crashes at evening are far more lethal than some others in day time.

He recalled one more accident on January 9 involving a Sienna (KUG 538 BJ) and a Sharon bus with out a variety plate on the Akwanga-Keffi road in Nasarawa Condition in which all 17 travellers have been “burnt past recognition.”

The Corps Marshal explained intelligence report discovered that most fleet operators and other car entrepreneurs, such as personal auto entrepreneurs, embark on night journeys to avid arrest by FRSC patrol officers for overloading of motor vehicles with passengers and products and for disregarding bodily distancing.

He mentioned though the corps does not have the powers to ban evening journeys, it was advising travellers in opposition to it.

Mr Oyeyemi said when a crash takes place considerably from FRSC rescue points at evening, it is tricky to access help.

“On our element, the corps will carry on to double its endeavours by continually partaking the motoring general public nationwide, through aggressive consciousness and sensitisation marketing campaign, until eventually the desired end result is accomplished,” he mentioned.