Over speeding killed 1,070 Nigerians in Q3 2017 ―NBS

A total of 1,070 Nigerians were reportedly killed in 2,478 road crashes between July and September, which made up the third quarter of 2017.

According to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) speed violation is reported as the major cause of road crashes in Q3 and it accounted for 44.51 percent 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 percent 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.

Similarly, a total of 1,070 Nigerians got killed in the road traffic crashes recorded in Q3.

Of the numbers deaths, 981, representing 91.7 percent were adults while the remaining 89 representing 8.3% of the figure are children.

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Also, 815 representing 76.2 percent of those that got killed were male got killed in Q3 while the remaining 255 or 23.8 percent were female Nigerians.

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

Nigeria’s vehicle per population ratio is put 0.06.

Data on the category of vehicles involved in road crashes in Q3 2017 reflected that 58 percent or 2000 of vehicles were commercial; 40.6 or 1,401 are private; 48 crashes or 1.4 percent of them are government.

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 with Delta and FCT state producing the highest number of vehicle plate numbers.

Ekiti and Rivers states produced the least numbers of vehicle plate numbers period under review.

Over speeding killed 1,070 Nigerians between July and September 2017.