… Sets up mobile courts to check traffic offences
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has deployed 184 personnel, 743 patrol vehicles, 184 administrative vehicles, 92 ambulances, 23 tow trucks and 144 motorbikes as parts of logistics for the special operations initiated to ensure crash-free Eid-el-Kabir celebration.
The corps has also deployed tyre pressure gauges, a number of extricating machines and digital breathalyzers for the special operations nationwide.
The Corps Marshal of FRSC, Shehu Mohammed, announced this during a press briefing on Friday June 14, at the corps headquarters in Abuja.
He said the objectives of the special operations were to reduce road traffic crashes, fatalities Injuries; prompt response to road traffic crash victims; unhindered engagement in purposeful public education and speedy removal of obstructions from the highways, amongst others.
The Corps Marshal said a total of 23 tow trucks have been mobilised to ensure prompt removal of obstructions, and rescue operations during the period. He added that15 traffic control camps were dedicated solely to identifying traffic gridlock areas to be manned by our personnel on a 24 hours basis.
He said: “In achieving the objectives of the special operations, the Corps will combine the engagement of the motoring public through purposeful and impactful public education programmes, strengthening of surveillance activities to regulate unprofessional excesses, sustained effective patrol operations as well as adequate monitoring on the highways.”
The FRSC boss said the the corps have also instituted over 200 Mobile Courts to check some road traffic offences, including speeding and dangerous driving/overtaking, lane indiscipline/route violation, road Obstructions,use of mobile phone while driving, overloading, seat belt/Child restraint use violations, loading of trailers with passengers, illegal use of the spy number plates, among others.
He said beyond the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, the corps would deploy more technology that would reduce the interface between drivers and FRSC personnel.
The corps marshal said more personnel would also be deployed on the highways to check drivers’ excesses, especially those using trailers to convey both human beings and animals.
He said the corps would continue to collaborate with the Nigeria Bar Association and State Judiciaries for timely prosecution of drivers and vehicle owners caught contravening established traffic regulations like overloading, dangerous driving, and use of phone as well as speeding.
“These violations will be tamed through the instrumentality of mobile court operations,” he said.
