Nigeria ranks least in the share of road accident deaths that involved alcohol, 2015.
South Africa: 58%
Canada: 34%
US: 31%
Australia: 30%
France: 29%
Italy: 25%
UK: 16%
S Korea: 14%
Germany: 9%
Russia: 9%
Japan: 6%
Mexico: 5%
India: 5%
China: 4%
Turkey: 3%
Nigeria: 1%
(WHO)
My Reaction: This is unbelievable and unacceptable. Nigerian road safety and police do not have facilities to test for drunk driving.
According to the NBS, the number of lives lost to road traffic accidents from January 2013 to June 2018 are as follows: 2013 – 5,539; 2014 – 4,430; 2015 – 5,400; (FRSC): 2016 – 5,053; 2017 – 5,049; January to June, 2018 – 2,623. Vanguard’s tally indicated that between July and September 7, 2018, no fewer than 126 lives had also been wasted in road crashes.
Summation of these figures gives a heartrending total of 28,195 lives crushed in 68 months, an equivalent of 415 lives per month, 14 persons per day, and two lives every four hours.
This makes Nigeria one of the countries with very high road fatalities in the world.
Indeed, in May 2017, the FRSC said that there were 33.7 deaths per 100,000 people in Nigeria every year, making Nigeria one of the countries with the highest number of fatalities in Africa.
The FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, made the disclosure during the flag-off of the Global Road Safety Week at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Secretariat, Kaduna.
There is an increasing burden of RTA and injury-related deaths globally. Nigeria has one of the highest rates of road traffic fatalities in the world. The response of the government in controlling this scourge has been inadequate.
By taking a public health approach to the prevention of RTA, we have the opportunity to have a broader influence on the physical, social, emotional, and economic manifestations of this scourge.
We can use data generated systematically to identify the burden and risk factors, design and test interventions that will address these, and then translate the interventions for implementation in the community. This is the conclusion of a medical journal on road accidents in nigeria.
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