Road Crashes Claim 88 Lives, Injure 429 Others In Ogun In Six Months

The Ogun State Traffic Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE) has disclosed that a total number of 88 people were confirmed dead, while 429 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in an accumulated number of road accidents that occurred from January till June 30 this year across the Ogun State corridors.

The Chief Executive Officer and TRACE Corp Commander, Commander ‘Seni Ogunyemi disclosed this yesterday while delivering his address at the 8th annual TRACE Commander’s conference and retreat held at the Valley View of the Government House in Abeokuta, the state capital.

This is just as stakeholders and professionals in the traffic management advocated for the adoption of technology-driven techniques to manage traffic flow not only in Ogun, but across Nigeria as a whole.

Disclosing that a total number of 267 road crashes were recorded across Ogun during the period under review, Ogunyemi expressed concern over the traffic cases most of which he asserted that were preventable if adequate caution had been taken by the drivers, passengers, commuters and pedestrians.

The TRACE Commandant however, assured that the agency would continue to strive harder through its various schemes to make Ogun State traffic strip safer for all road users.

In the lecture which he delivered at the event, the resource person of this year’s edition of TRACE Retreat, Prof. Olayiwole Solanke declared that the current method of traffic management in Nigeria has become obsolete and needed to be reviewed.

The transport consultant, Solanke, who is the Dean, Faculty of Administration and Management Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, (OOU), Ago Iwoye in his lecture titled: “Traffic Management Solutions And Capacity Building As A Panacea To Traffic Challenges In Nigeria”, emphasized that the current conservative method of traffic management in the country can’t be expected to yield a better and different results in this 21st century.