Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has reported a total of 540 deaths, while 3,383 others were injured in 950 road crashes across the country in January.
In total 7, 827 people were affected in these accidents.
In its monthly report on Road Traffic Crash (RTC), the agency, signed by the Marshall Corps Boboye Oyeyemi, published in Abuja on Friday, the data showed a 21 per cent decrease in death rates.
It also showed a 14% decrease in the number of people injured in crashes and 14% decrease compared to December 2018. In the month under review, he said.
“A general increase of all parameters was found in a comparative analysis of January-Crash statistics with the corresponding month in 2018.”
The report says that Lagos-Ibadan has recorded 57 cases, representing 11 percent declines as of December 2018, as the highest number of road accidents.
“It was followed with 54 and 51 cases by Abuja-Lokoja and Kaduna-Abuja,” he said.
State-based analysis showed Kaduna with 95 cases the highest number of crashes.
“There have been 83 cases in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) followed by Ogun with 64 cases and 58 and 46 cases by Nasarawa and Oyo.”
He said, however, that in comparison with December, 2018, Kaduna registered the most deaths with 53 deaths, which represented a 48-per-cent decrease.
“Bauchi and Ogun each had 44 deaths and Kano and Oyo had 35 and 29 cases in order of scale.
Moreover, a speed violation was reported as a large cause, with 50% of the total causative factors representing 49.4%.
“In the month under review, commercial vehicles accounted for 65.5 percent of the total vehicles in accidents.
“While 32.7 percent accounted for private vehicles and 1.8 percent for government vehicles.”
In order for road users to become more aware of the road, the Agency urged the federal government and private media to promote road use education.