FRSC Gives Sept 1 Deadline to Enforce Speed Limiters

FRSC Gives Sept 1 Deadline to Enforce Speed Limiters

Today, the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, has announced that with effect from September 1, the implementation of speed limiters in vehicle would commence on commercial vehicle operators on the nation's highways making sure vehicles are fitted with speed limiting device.

Oyeyemi was speaking while declaring open the maiden edition of the annual recertification and retraining programme organised for tanker and trailer drivers at Orile Iganmu, Lagos.

"Let me restate that the enforcement of the regulation would be vigorous, total and non-compromising. It is our belief that with the use of speed limiting device, cases of speed related crashes in the country would be reduced drastically," he said.

He expressed dismay over the spate of crashes involving tankers and trailers, calling on stakeholders to join hands in the collective efforts to reverse the trend.

According to him, the activities of tanker and trailer drivers across the country have increasingly attained an unenviable status and become a source of concern to all road safety stakeholders in the country, stating that available statistics indicate that between March and July this year alone, over 120 lives have been lost with more people sustaining various degrees of injuries while valuable property were lost to the inferno, following the spate of road traffic crashes involving tankers and trailers.

"It is on record that since 2012, tankers and trailers have accounted for over 22 percent of the total vehicles involved in crashes across the country.

"This development is particularly worrisome considering the fact that sizeable percentage of the victims of these crashes fall within the productive age bracket of the national population, which portends great economic implications to the country.

 "The situation even becomes more frightening, if one considers the likely increase, if urgent steps are not taken to reverse the trend," the corps marshal stated.