Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Monday said the number of road accidents recorded in Kaduna State dropped to 392 in the first half of this year.

The figure was against the 620 accidents recorded in the corresponding period in 2016, a drop by 37.7 per cent.

Sector Commander, Umar Ibrahim, who gave the statistics, said the 620 accidents recorded in the first half of 2016 involved 856 vehicles, but the figures dropped to 392 accidents involving 555 vehicles in the same period in 2017.

The number of people involved in the accidents equally reduced from 4,767 to 2,699 with corresponding decrease in the number of injured from 2,546 to 1,700,” he said.

The sector commander did not give the number of deaths recorded in the accidents, but attributed the successes to improved attitude of motorists towards their safety.

He said compliance by commercial vehicle owners to the directive to install speed limit device had greatly improved in recent times.

Ibrahim commended motorists and urged them to continue to cooperate with security agencies on the highways to ensure accident free roads.

Ibrahim said the command has concluded the “audit” of the entire township roads in the state to know roads that require roads signs and those that are bad and need repairs.

He said recommendation would soon be submitted to the appropriate authorities for immediate action.

“Plans have also been concluded to comb the highway to take care of road side grasses obstructing drivers’ view and replace broken signs where necessary,’’ Ibrahim said.