As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate this year’s World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, stakeholders should enunciate decisive actions that will reduce road traffic crashes in the country.

According to Federal Road Safety Corps, in order to call more attention to the effects of road traffic crashes, families, individuals and government should take decisive actions against the menace so that there would be common solutions to reducing the carnage.

Its Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi said crashes on roads were leading cause of death globally for children and young people between ten and twenty-four years.

Oyeyemi said by implication, it has been estimated that in every six seconds, someone was killed or injured on the world’s road.

He spoke through Assistant Corps Marshal, Motor Vehicle Administration, Jonas Agwu, saying road traffic and related activities demanded the highest mental alertness and concentration.

The theme for this year’s event is “Roads Have Stories, for Happy Endings, Let’s Improve Road Safety”.

He said in order to call more attention to the effects of road traffic crashes, families, individuals and government should take decisive actions against the menace so that there would be common solutions to reducing the carnage.

Oyeyemi said road traffic and related activities demanded the highest mental alertness and concentration.

He said this had made it necessary for the use was a compendium of stories that should be shared constantly to ward off the negative consequences.

“As we approach the end of the year, it is important that we rethink our road sense to be sensible and positive.

“This is so, particularly as it is a known fact that human error causes more than 75 per cent of road traffic crashes worldwide,” he said.