The Federal Road Safety
Corps (FRSC) said it recorded 43 deaths and 100 road traffic crashes in Akwa Ibom State in 2013.
The Uyo Sector Commander of the corps, Mr Ocheja Ameh, who said this in an interview last Sunday in Uyo explained that those who died in the crashes were 32 male, 10 female and one child.
The sector commander said that there was a decrease in the number of deaths recorded in 2013 as against 50 deaths recorded in 2012.
He also said that there was a reduction in the number of road crashes in the state in the year under review, pointing out that 131 road crashes occurred in the state in 2012.
Ameh attributed the reduction to rigorous sensitisation campaigns carried out by the command, especially in the last quarter of 2013.
Ameh said that the dominant causes of road crashes in the state were speed limit violations and dangerous driving adding that the command had seriously campaigned against speed limit violations and dangerous driving in the state to reduce crashes this year.
He added that the command would organise other programmes in 2014 to drastically reduce the number of road crashes in the state.
Ameh disclosed that all stakeholders in the transport sector in Akwa Ibom had signed an agreement that there would be strict enforcement of the speed limit device installation.
He added that the corps would enter into similar agreements with other transport companies in the state.
