Nigerian families are increasingly losing bread winners to road accidents, according to a monthly `Road Traffic Crash (RTC) Report’ released by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
The July edition of the report released in Abuja, said “Seventy per cent of deaths recorded in road traffic crashes in the month of July were male adults, indicating that Nigeria is losing more bread winners to road traffic crashes.’’
Statistics presented in the report show that the country lost a total of 423 persons to road accidents in July, out of which 295 (or 70 per cent) were male adults.
This represents an average of nine male adult deaths daily across the country in July.
The adult male death rate is three times more than that of the 91 female (or 26 per cent) of the total fatality figure in the month under review.
The remaining 37 deceased…
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