The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, says a total of 12077 road crashes were recorded across the country in 2015.
The FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, disclosed this in Uyo on Wednesday while addressing a public enlightenment forum organised for transport stakeholders at old Akwa Transport Corporation ( AKTC) park.
Mr. Boboye was represented at the event by the Assistant Corp Marshal in charge of Policy, Research and Statistics, Michael Olagunju.
He said out of 12,077 road crashes recorded last year 5,400 people representing 65 percent of those involved in the crashes lost their lives.
Mr. Oyeyemi said the commission would not go back oon the Oct.1 deadline for the implementation of speed limiting device nationwide approved by President Buhari.
The Corps Marshal regretted that most of the carshes would have been avoided if appropriate safety measure were adopted by the motorists while pying the highways.
He described the statistics on road crashes as staggering and reiterated that the speed limiting device would save Nigerians the embarrassment on the highways.
'' Most of the road crashes are preventable, if we are able to bring down the speed, we will be saving a lot of lives on our highways'', he said.
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