The Ogun Sector Commander, Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr Clement Oladele, said on Saturday that a total of 270 persons lost their lives in road traffic crashes in the state in 2016.

Oladele announced this at the inauguration of road traffic cautionary sign posts at Onipepeye and Siun junction area of the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway in Ogun.

The ceremony was performed by His Royal Majesty, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, CFR, the Alake of Egbaland.

The FRSC sector commander said that of the 383 crashes recorded in Ogun in 2016, a total of 1,366 persons sustained various degrees of injuries and were taken to various hospitals for treatment.