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NBS: 11 people died daily in Nigerian road crashes between July and September
By Newsworth - December 6, 201707


Data released on Wednesday by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has shown that an average of 11 persons died everyday in Nigerian road accidents between July 1 and September 30 this year.


It also revealed that a total of 6,803 Nigerians sustained injury from the accidents.



The Road Transport Data for Third Quarter, 2017 posted on the NBS website on Wednesday indicated that 981 of the 1,070 Nigerians that died, representing 91.7 per cent of the figure, were adults while the remaining 89 Nigerians, representing 8.3 per cent of the figure were children.



The breakdown of the figure showed that 815 of those lost to road crashes within the period were males, representing 76.2 per cent while 255 were females, representing 23.8 per cent.



According to the report, 2,478 cases of road accidents occurred in the third quarter, identifying the major cause as speed violation, which it said accounted for 44.51 per cent of the total accidents reported in the quarter.


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