Night travels, overloading our major headache – FRSC

Night travels, overloading our major headache – FRSC

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says overloading and night travels have remained some of the problems confronting the agency.
Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Dauda Biu, said this in a statement on Sunday.
He was reacting to a June 02 accident along Kano-Ringim Road Kano State in which 18 people died and 12 others were injured.
Biu, a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO) Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem, said the crash occured at 20:35hrs in Zakirai town, Kano-Ringim Road, and involved two commercial vehicles, a Volkswagen Sharon, overloaded with children and a Toyota bus also overloaded.
“To add to it, the Sharon engaged in dangerous and wrongful overtaking,” he added
Biu said that all hands must be on deck to ensure that overloading is reduced to the barest minimum, if not completely avoided.
The FRSC boss cautioned “motorists against dangerous overtaking, overloading and night travels across the country.”

The corps marshal also called for patience and collective vigilance on the roads to avoid unnecessary and unwarranted road accidents that could claim lives and properties.
He said the “FRSC is committed to ensuring safer road environments stating that adequate number of personnel and logistics are on the road for effective traffic management and rescue operations across the country.”
He also appealed to members of the public to contact the FRSC call centre through the toll-free line (122) in the event of a road crash and other emergencies for a prompt response.
He also said that all FRSC facilities remained open and functional to attend to members of the public.