The road transport data (Q3 2020) report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) data revealed that 3,066 road crashes occurred in the third quarter of 2020.

Major cause of road crashes

According to the statistics bureau, speed violation is reported as the major cause of road crashes in Q3 2020 and it accounted for 57.26% of the total road crashes reported, Wrongful overtaking followed closely as it accounted for 7.11% of the total road crashes recorded while Dangerous Overtaking recorded the least of the total road crashes reported.

People Killed?

Similarly, a total of 1,236 Nigerians got killed in the road traffic crashes recorded in Q3 2020. Out of the total Nigerians that got killed, 1,176 are adults representing 95% of the figure while the remaining 60 Nigerians are children representing 5%.

Gender involved?

976 male Nigerians, representing 79%, got killed in road crashes in Q3 2020 while 200 female Nigerians, representing 16% got killed.

Vehicle types

A total of 4,893 vehicles were involved in road traffic crashes in Q3 2020. Car is reported to be the major type of vehicle involved in road crashes and it accounted for 30.30% of the vehicles involved in road crashes reported followed by Motorcycle and Minibus as they both accounted for 22.60% and 15.50% respectively.

Data on the category of vehicles involved in road crashes in Q3 2020 reflected that 61% of vehicles are commercial (2,987), 37.80% are private (1,849) and 1.10% are government with 56 vehicles involved.

Bsaka99:
This is very sad
Nigerian governments are so irresponsible.same story every year

Bsaka99:
This is very sad
Nigerian governments are so irresponsible.same story every year

edygistvilla:
This is close to the total covid death in Nigeria. Instead of investing in repairing our dilapidated road infrastructure, they want to spend a half a trillion dollars on a vaccine Nigerians are sceptical about

alexistaiwo:
Covid-19 didn't even kill that much within same time period.

Bad roads been killing Nigerians on a pandemic scale since 1960, our government have never declared a state of emergency.


Common virus that has a 90% recovery rate, they want everybody to stay at home.


Misplaced priorities.