FRSC lists critical offences responsible for road crashes

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has identified critical offences causing unending road crashes in the country.

Sector Commander of the corps in Delta, Mr Rindom Kumven and the state’s coordinator of the Special Marshall unit, Mr Dickson Amromawhe, gave the hints at the FRSC Town Hall/Stakeholders Forum in Warri on Wednesday.

The forum was organised for all stakeholders to rub minds together on how more lives can be saved from avoidable errors arising from driving on Nigerian roads.

The road safety boss, Kumven, listed the critical offences orchestrating accidents of the roads to include: speed violation, use of phone while driving, overloading and driving against traffic.

He itemized the dangerous habits of driving and texting messages on phone, lighting of cigarettes, intake of alcohol and non-use of seat belts while driving as veritable road to the grave in split seconds.

According to him, the above dangerous practices prompted the introduction of speed limiters, psychological test now being carried out on drivers who defiantly violate traffic rules.

While appealing to commuters to always unite to call to order commercial drivers when violating traffic rules, the sector commander hinted that about four offenders had undergone mental test in the state, but none was found psychologically unbalanced.

He added that the cost of such psychological test carried out in designated hospitals are borne by the offenders, adding that more enlightenment on safety on roads would be done in motor parks soonest.

Speaking further on causes of road crashes, Mr Amromawhe, group then under human, mechanical and environmental factors.

According to the Special Marshall boss, lack of 100 per cent concentration while driving amounts to several road crashes in the country.

Giving instances of how people go behind the wheels in spite of their unstable frame of mind, he said a man who had just had a quarrel with his spouse should avoid driving to avoid accident as a result of lack of concentration.

“After a quarrel with your spouse at home, don’t drive. It is emotionally dangerous if you cannot give 100 per cent concentration,” he noted.

He appealed to car owners to always remain with their mechanics when they take their vehicles to their workshops for repairs.