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The rising
incidences of road crashes are caused by careless driving and poor
maintenance of the vehicles, Charles Agbo, acting director general of
the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said.

Mr Agbo, who was
represented by NEMA’s director of training, Clem Aisueni, during a
training workshop of the agency’s drivers in Keffi, Nassarawa State,
advised motorists to ensure the safety of lives and property through
the observance of traffic rules and careful driving. He also advised
corporate organizations to properly train and monitor their drivers,
and urged commercial motorists to avail themselves of useful safety
knowledge while on the roads.

Mr Agbo equally called for greater cooperation between federal road
safety agencies such as the Federal Road Safety Commission and the
Directorate of Road Transport Services. “Last weekend, along the
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, a tanker fully loaded veered off on the long
bridge and collided with the embankment of the bridge that resulted in
[a] huge conflagration causing a terrible damage and traffic jam that
lasted for hours,” he said. “Also in Madalla, near Abuja for instance,
a tanker loaded with fuel skidded off the road and rammed into a market
where it burst into flames, which led to the burning of many persons
and properties.”