Two months into the "ember" months, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) disclosed on Wednesday that 41 people have lost their lives in auto crashes in Oyo State.

Speaking at the 2013 Ember months Road Safety Awareness campaign in Ibadan, the FRSC Sector Commander, Godwin Ogagaoghene said that 49 crashes have recorded resulting in 41 deaths with 262 injured.The ember months are the last four months in the year. They are September, October,November and December.

According to him, this is an increase of 8.9 per cent in road traffic crashes, 26 per cent in number of persons injured and 24 per cent in number of persons killed over last year's figure.He said that this was an unhealthy and unacceptable trend that "we must all rise to combat.

"This is not the making of any spirit being, there are no extraterrestrial beings that are responsible for crashes, rather crashes are as a result of our attitude on the road," he said.

While noting that the theme for the campaign was "Attitude; The Change we need on our roads, Ogagaoghene said it was selected due to the fact that it had been discovered that most of the traffic crashes could have been avoided "if the drivers involved considered change of attitude before they find themselves behind the wheel."Most crashes on our roads can be ascribed to the attitude of the driver behind the wheel," he declared.

Also speaking, the Commander of the FRSC Zone 11, L.S. Kinya, identified excessive speed, drunk driving, use of phone while driving, over loading, failure to obey road traffic signs and rules, poor vehicle maintenance as some of the major causes of road traffic crashes.

Commander Kinya disclosed that in an effort at bringing sanity on the roads, the FRSC was planning to introduce "Speed Limiters" into vehicles through appropriate legislation.He expressed hope that this would assist in reducing the rate of crashed caused by excessive speed.