Not less than 1,331 Nigerians died in the road crashes in the second quarter of 2018, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

The figure was contained in the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) “Road Transport Data (Q2 2018)’’ report released on Tuesday in Abuja.

The report said 1,257 of the 1,331 Nigerians that died, representing 94 per cent of the figure, were adults while the remaining 74 Nigerians, representing six per cent of the figure, were children.

“Also, 1,047 male Nigerians, representing 79 per cent, got killed in road crashes in the second quarter while 284 female Nigerians, representing 21 per cent got killed.

According to the report, a total of 8,437 Nigerians also got injured in road crashes within the period.


It said of the number, 7,946 Nigerians got injured, representing 94 per cent of the figure all adults while the remaining 491 Nigerians, representing six per cent of the figure were children.

It said: “6,415 male Nigerians, representing 76 per cent, got injured in road crashes in the second quarter while 2,022 female Nigerians, representing 24 per cent got injured.”

The report also said 2,608 road crashes occurred through speed violation in the second quarter of 2018, accounting for 50.65 per cent.

The report said tyre burst and dangerous driving followed closely, accounting for 8.59 per cent and 8.40 per cent of the total road crashes recorded.

http://www.akelicious.net/2018/08/nbs-1331-nigerians-die-in-road-crashes.html

All in the name of bad road may Buhari and his federal associates causing this wickedness never go unpunished amen..

I will not die prematurely in Jesus name

Bad roads!!!

Terrible

okay Let me Switch to Train to Avoid Story dat touches. ...

This is too bad

I'm new here people.....

And our president is not among? God please when will you take away our Pharaoh?

Terrible

Lord! have mercy

1332 preventable deaths. kwantinue

We the patriot crew of Nigeria totally disagree with NBC on this, NBC are idiotic pigs of biafra, they are children of hate! What has pdp done for the last 16yrs? They did nothing and that's why pmb has been repairing Nigeria since 2015

Being a zombie is fun oh... The above shows how a typical zombie acts when confronted with facts... Those guys really dey try for stupidity sha. Sarrki, ngene, and Madridguy ain't i a patriot?

Blood must be drank by those of the under world
Our leaders who refuse to do those roads are those people of the under world iMo state road leading to rivers state is soo bad it is accident prone and a kidnappers paradise I passed there yesterday and counted 15 checkpoints in RIVERS states road � River's state done taya for iMo state

Death is following Buhari

Why won't there be accidents and deaths wen our roads are death traps. PH-Aba na hell road, Aba-Umuahia na wahala, umuahia to Okigwe na day journey, Okigwe to Enugu that shud be 45mins journey takes 3hrs.

One of my pregnant patients traveled from Aba to PH 2wks ago, 20mina after she arrived bleeding started, dat was how she lost the pregnancy she has been praying for since. After Liar Mohammed will tell us that Buhari is building his father and mother in SE

How many died from Terrorists attack?

If SARS, fulani herdsmen no kill you, Nigeria road go kill you.... Too bad for a country, the life span of Nigerians living in this country is so low

Gy

Nawa

Wow .. So low


Let flat head people take over then we will be few

Apart from being poverty capital of the world , Nigeria is also death capital of the world , more people die daily in Nigeria average than any other nation and all under Buhari govt .

chai, e nor go better for some people

Spoon buhari

Oluwa Jó da òwò ishè ibi Duro!!!

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Bad roads drunk drivers Bad government white elephants project that wouldn't be complete, God save Nigeria.