The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has cautioned drivers plying highways to always obey traffic rules and prioritise the lives of passengers.
The corps, which spoke against the backdrop of the weekend’s loss of 22 lives to an auto crash in Darazo Local Council of Bauchi State, noted: “Eighty per cent of road accidents are caused by human errors and negligence, 10 per cent by machine (motor) errors, while 10 per cent are by road factors.”
The Bauchi Sector Commander of the corps, AbdulRasak Najume, told The Guardian that the accident, which occurred at 8:00 p.m., involved a Toyota Hiace and a Vectra car “when one of the drivers was making a dangerous overtaking. The incident, however, claimed the lives of all the travelers in both vehicles.”
The FRSC chief added: “Some drivers are not qualified to drive at night – because some of them are having sight problems – and they engage in a dangerous overtaking. Read more