The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has decried the rising cases of unclaimed corpses of victims of auto-crash in Nigeria.
Mr Idris Yahaya, Deputy Route Commander (DRC) and the Zaria Unit Public Enlightenment Officer of FRSC, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), advised road transport workers on the importance of maintaining travellers manifest at motor parks for easy identification of victims in case of road accidents.
Yahaya, who did not disclose the number of unclaimed corpses deposited by the unit at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) morgue, Zaria, however said the figure was alarming as most of the cases involved commercial vehicles.
He added that the unit was working towards obtaining the approval of the Chairman, Sabon Gari Local Government Council of Kaduna State, to bury the unclaimed dead bodies deposited by the unit at the morgue of ABUTH.
Yahaya also decried the high rate of accidents recorded between Dumbin Rauga to Yan Karfe in Zaria Local Government Area in the state, noting that 83 lives were lost with 191 serious injuries in the axis between January and June, this year.
The FRSC official however, disclosed that the unit was planning to bring key stakeholders together to brainstorm and fashion out sustainable ways of addressing road traffic accidents along the Kaduna-Zaria-Kano highway.
“The enlightenment and strategy conference is to tame the habit of some road users especially drivers of commercial vehicles turned the completed portion of Kaduna to Kano Expressway into a race course.
“The Sabon Gari Local Government Council have agreed to support the unit on the conference with a view to forestall traffic crashes in the area,” he said.
