The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in its 2012 annual report recently released has disclosed that road accident in Nigeria between 1960 and 2012 in 1,060,507 crashes, claimed a total of 322,427 lives and 1,016,299 injuries.

Commenting on the report, analyst has viewed that the number may be more than the given figure giving that most death may not have been officially recorded.

The FRSC dashboard also revealed that speed violation contributes 35 percent, 17 percent from loss of control while dangerous driving accounts for 17 percent of the death, stressing that the most causes of road crash include human, mechanical and environmental factor.

It further reports that bad roads, route violation and obstruction accounted for 2 percent each, while burst tyres account for 9 percent, listing the rest to include brake failure 5 percent, mechanically faults and wrongful overtaking 3 percent in the top 10 probable causative factors of road traffic crashes in 2012.

The report also stated that 2012 alone had a total of 4,260 reported deaths on Nigerian roads, representing an average of 12 percent dying daily, adding that 20,752 injuries were recorded in a year, translating to an average of 57 injuries daily.

It therefore translated that on the average, 69 persons were either injured or killed on the roads daily, while 48,114 persons were involved in 6,269 documented cases, further interpreting that on the average of one hour, approximately one crash occurred on the road and 5.5, that is 6 persons, were involved in a crash within an hour.

However, analysts said these figures are still very high, hence unacceptable.