According to National Bureau of Statistics, From January to June, 2018, 2,623 people lost their lives to road traffic accident, in addition, as at
March 2018, National Bureau of Statistics also, reveals that Nigeria registered 11, 657, 871 vehicles. However, it is of interest to note that Nigeria is one of the countries in African with high rate of road traffic accident. Since all of us are road users hence, the need to reduce untimely death of many road users due to road traffic accident becomes inevitable.
Death and injury from road accidents, in some parts of the world, mostly developing countries, are becoming a notable global problem that requires a serious attention. For instance, in 1998, the World Bank gave an estimation of 1 million deaths from road accidents. In 2004, the World Health Day, the report from the WHO and the World Bank showed that the number of deaths recorded from road accidents was about 1.2 million people while 50 million people were injured. One may wonder why there is a high rate of road accidents in the developing countries while in the developed countries the rate of accidents is reducing on daily basis. In the developed countries, the traffic rules and regulations are enforced on all motorists while in the developing countries, there is poor implementation of the traffic rules and regulations coupled with diverse personal issues that many people in the developing countries have to face. Such issues, amongst others include, poverty, depression, physical illness, emotional and financial stress. These are enormous possible factors that may force the road users to misbehave when making use of the road. Hence, below are 10 possible ways of reducing road accidents on our roads: Please, click here to read details: http://globaltransportandlogistics.com/10-ways-of-reducing-road-traffic-accidents/