Some security experts on Saturday warned motorists against reckless driving in desperate bids to make profits.
The experts gave the warning in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abeokuta.
Mr Paul Ayeni, former Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC), urged commercial drivers to desist from overloading.
Ayeni said that overloading, using prevailing fuel scarcity as an excuse, was not an option.
” It should be avoided by all means,” he said.
The Founder, Useful Youth Vision Concepts (UYVC), Mrs Adetokunbo Shonibare-Ayantunji, pleaded with motorists not to engage in excessive speeding.
Shonibare-Ayantunji said that according to the third quarter statistics on road accidents by the Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), the most common cause of road traffic crashes is excessive speeding.
” The statistics said excessive speeding is responsible for 52 per cent of the road traffic crashes,” she said.
She urged the corps to impose the use of speed detectors by commanding drivers to enforce speed reduction.
A Human Rights advocate, who is also a government official, Mr Sunday Olowoyobiojo, urged the Ogun government to increase the workforce of the corps for effective monitoring
He further urged the state government to purchase extra patrol vehicles to patrol the corridors for constant monitoring patrol to reduce carnages.
