FG produced 54,672 driving licences in Q2

The Federal Government produced 54,672 driver’s licences in the Second Quarter of 2020.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed this in its report titled “Road Transport Data (Q2 2020).”

According to the document on its website on Wednesday, the Federal Government also produced 155,552 number plates in the period under review.

Continuing, the report said the Q2 2020 road transport data reflected that 2,080 road crashes occurred in Q2 2020.

NBS said: “Speed violation is reported as the major cause of road crashes in Q2 2020 and it accounted for 47 percent of the total road crashes reported, Wrongful overtaking followed closely as it accounted for 10 percent of the total road crashes recorded while Dangerous Overtaking recorded the least of the total road crashes reported.”

It added a total of 5,535 Nigerians got injured in the road traffic crashes recorded.

Out of the total Nigerians that got injured, according to the NBS report, 5,166 were adults representing 93 percent while the remaining 369 Nigerians are children representing 7 percent.

4,393 males, representing 79 percent cent got injured in road crashes in Q2 2020 while 1,142 female Nigerians, representing 21 percent got injured.