FRSC sensitises articulated vehicles drivers on safety measures



Sensitisation


By Clara Egbogota


Asaba, April 18, 2024 (NAN) The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has urged articulated vehicles drivers to desist from carrying passengers in their trucks to reduce carnages on the highway.


The Corps made the call on Thursday at the Oko Trailer Park in Asaba, during a sensitisation of articulated vehicles drivers on the dangers of carrying passengers with goods in their trucks.


Corps Commander Ugochukwu Amechi, the Zonal Head of Operations, FRSC, Edo, said that the sensitisation on how to reduce carnages on the road was apt considering the number of casualties usually involved.


“We have noticed that the road traffic crashes have reduced but the number of casualties, the number of those that die and those that are involved are on the increase.


“It has distorted the whole indices because once crashes reduce, the number of casualties should also reduce, but this time, the crashes are reducing but then the deaths have increased.


“We have noticed that one of the areas that we have not touched are trailers, J5 tanker drivers, and these people are the ones that when there is a crash it will cause more than 100 deaths.


“We all know that trucks are not designed to carry human beings but loads and that is why we are sensitising those that oversee these trucks to understand what is involved so as to be able to do what is needful.


“We have now come to the conclusion that a maximum of four persons who will attend to this cows should be in the truck.


“If we are reducing crashes, we should also reduce casualties and with that, we will be able to meet our basic objective of reducing casualties and carnages on the road,” he said.


Mr Bassey Eshiet, Sector Commander, FRSC Delta Command, said that between December 2023 and Jan. 15, 2024 more than 50 lives were lost and it had become worrisome.


“That is why the Corps Marshal directed that we should engage the stakeholders and talk to them on the need for them to obey simple safety measures by not carrying passengers with goods in their trucks.


“So,we are here to remind them on those things that some of them know, some of them learn driving in the course of escorting trucks from the North to the East and then they feel that they are drivers.


“We are here to make them know who the real drivers are and for them to desist from it,” he said.


Governor Sheriff Oborewori commended the FRSC for sensitising truck drivers on the dangers of carrying loads and passengers on their trucks.


Oborewori, represented by Mr Musa Zakari, Special Assistant on Youth Mobilisations, said that the sensitisation was in line with the M.O.R.E agenda of his government.


“It is a good thing that the FRSC is here to sensitise articulated vehicles drivers on the need to stop carrying passengers with goods.


“It is a welcome development because what we want in the state is safety,” he added. (NAN)(nannews.com.ng)

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Edited by Perpetua Onuegbu/Vivian Ihechu


 

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