No fewer than 2, 598 Nigerians died in road accidents between October 2017 and March 2018, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The NBS disclosed this in the Road Transport Data for the 4th quarter, 2017 and 1st quarter, 2018, posted on its website.
The breakdown showed that 1, 306 Nigerians died in road accidents in the fourth quarter of 2017 while 1, 292 people died in an accident in the first quarter of 2018.
The figure, however, showed a decline in road accidents in the country.
According to the data, 2, 489 road accidents occurred in the fourth quarter of last year while 2,482 accidents were recorded in the first quarter of this year.
The bureau attributed the major cause of road crashes in the first quarter to speed violation as it accounted for 50.81 percent of the total road accidents reported.
It stated that tires burst and dangerous driving followed closely…
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