13 people died daily in Nigerian road accidents in July – FRSC

An average of 13 people were killed in road accidents daily across Nigeria in 2017, data by the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has shown.
The FRSC said 423 persons died and 2,339 others were wounded in 768 road traffic accidents across the country in July.
The agency disclosed this in the July edition of its monthly `Road Traffic Crash (RTC) Report’ made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Friday.
According to the report signed by the FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, the July death figure represents an increase of 122 or 41 per cent over that of June.
In June, the FRSC recorded 738 accidents nationwide leaving 301 persons dead and 2,157 others wounded.
The latest report said the accident cases and persons injured in July were also higher than those of the previous month by 30 and 182 or 4 per cent and 8 per cent respectively.