'All accidents from February 2016 till date have been tyre-related' - FRSC

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has revealed the cause of road traffic crashes from February to now.

According to the FRSC Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, all of these accidents were caused by tyre-related issues.

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Thus, the agency is set to impound vehicles with

Oyeyemi made the announcement at the Stakeholders’ Forum on Tyres, themed “Promoting Safe Tyre use in Nigeria”.

"We are going to start impounding any vehicle that has expired or substandard tyre, and then we will arrange for the continuous journey of the passengers. That’s the new method to preserve lives. This is going to be done without fine but the driver will use money to go and buy genuine tyres with receipt before he would be allowed to continue his journey.

Enough is enough to this. We need to take stringent actions as soon as possible to save more lives. Nigerians will have to choose between life and death. It’s either you use a fake or substandard tyre, and then with the temperature of 41 degrees have a tyre blow out and a life is lost, or you buy a genuine tyre and play safe.

New tyres are not so costly: with N11, 000 now you can get a new tyre, whereas these fairly used tyres cost between N5, 000 and N6, 000: the choice is yours.

You can buy tyres, vehicles can be replaced but lives can’t be replaced. The choice is yours, but on our part, we have decided that no vehicle can move forward with substandard tyre,” he said.