The Federal Road Safety Corps ,FRSC, has urged motorists and other road users on the Benin-Auchi highway to avoid overload and speeding to reduce the rate of road fatality during the festive period.
The FRSC Auchi Unit Commander, Moses Bature, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen today in Auchi .
Bature said the Benin-Auchi road had witnessed series of unprecedented road traffic and accidents in recent times as a result of overload and speeding.
He said that the safety of travellers on Nigerian roads was central to the campaigns of the FRSC through its patrol activities and public enlightenment programmes.
The FRSC unit commander said that the command had embarked on a full-scale enforcement to curb dangerous driving, overtaking and use of phone while driving as well as speed limit violation and overloading.
He said officers of the command have been deployed to the highway for daily patrol to make enforcement in order to ensure that motorists comply with existing traffic rules.
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