At least 84 people have died in 133 road accidents across the country during the last Easter celebration, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said.
Spokesperson of the FRSC, Bisi Kazeem, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. He said 857 persons were involved in those crashes involving 213 vehicles.
He said the vehicles included 15 tanker/trailers, 28 trucks, 40 buses, 85 cars, 35 motorcycles, five tricycles and five pickups.
Mr Kazeem said 36 of the crashes were fatal; 72, serious and 23, minor.
He said the number of persons rescued with injuries from the crashes at 84.
The FRSC was able to rescue 405 people from those crashes without injuries due to the wider coverage given to the operations within the period, he said.
He said 275 people were rescued without injuries in the same period in 2021; while 405 were rescued during the 2022 Easter special patrol, representing 47 percent improvement from the 2022 record.
A total of 8,097 offenders were apprehended during the Easter period as against the 6,634 apprehended at the same period last year.
