FRSC gears up towards development, implementation of new policy on pre-fitted speed limiting device on locally-assembled, imported vehicles
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has stated that in complying with the United Nations Decade of Action (2021-2030) on Safe System Approach to road safety, as adopted in the Nigeria Road Safety Strategy NRSS (2021-2030) and stipulated in pillar 2 which deals with safer vehicles; it is developing a new policy on pre-ffitted speed limiting device on locally assembled and imported vehicles to further strengthen it’s campaign against speed related crashes.
The strategy aims at applying technology that is cost effective and adoptable with capacity to regulate vehicle speed to a national threshold. It is premised on the ground that good mobility and safer roads could be achieved through regulated design and manufacturing of vehicles both assembled locally and imported as well.
According to the Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu, the Corps has noticed that since the commencement of enforcement on installation of speed limiting device, a reasonable number of vehicle owners have not complied with the installation policy.
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It is, therefore, in the quest to tame this compromise and non-compliance that the Corps, having done a critical analysis of speed as a major cause of crashes on our roads decided to propose the development and implementation of pre-fitted speed limiting device for all vehicles assembled in Nigeria and those imported into the country as well.
The Corps took the bold step to nip this menace in the bud because, from January to September, 2023 alone, a total of 7830 crashes occured on Nigerian roads. Out of these 69% were speed related.
Dauda Biu also stated that as part of the strategy for the development and implementation of the policy, the Corps had organised a stakeholders workshop to secure the buy in of relevant stakeholders in the road transportation sector and ensure that everyone is committed to the objective of the policy which bothers solely on eradicating speed related crashes on our roads.
