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Accident Victims’ Evacuation: FRSC sets 15 minutes target

L-R FRSC Sector Commander, Lagos state, Hyginus Omeje; Managing Director, Guinness Nigeria Plc, Mr. Peter Ndegwa handing out a Responsible Drinking flyer to a motorist and Corporate Relations Director, Guinness Nigeria Plc, Sesan Sobowale during the flag-off of the 2016 Guinness FRSC Ember months campaign at the Ketu Garage in Lagos.

L-R FRSC Sector Commander, Lagos state, Hyginus Omeje; Managing Director, Guinness Nigeria Plc, Mr. Peter Ndegwa handing out a Responsible Drinking flyer to a motorist and Corporate Relations Director, Guinness Nigeria Plc, Sesan Sobowale during the flag-off of the 2016 Guinness FRSC Ember months campaign at the Ketu Garage in Lagos.

Mr Hyginus Omeje, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Sector Commander, Lagos State Command, says the corps has set 15 minutes time limit to evacuate victims from scenes of road crashes.

Omeje made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the flag off of the “2016 Guinness/Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Responsible Drinking Ember Months Campaign” on Wednesday at Ketu Garage, Lagos.

NAN reports that the Responsible Drinking Ember Months Campaign, now in the 9th edition, is sponsored by Guinness Nigeria Plc.

The campaign is geared toward orientation of commercial drivers on the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol.

Omeje said that the corps was now fully equipped not only to prevent avoidable accident caused by human errors, but also fully equipped to assist the victims in time of accident.

“We are fully equipped to assist during emergencies during accidents and we have also set a time limit of at most 15 minutes to evacuate accident victims from the scene.

“Part of our responsibility includes safety of people injured during accidents and that is why we are equipped with infrastructure and personnel such as ambulances and our well trained staff.

“To meet up with the set target of 15 minutes, we are equipped with power bikes to navigate traffic just to ensure that we save lives during the accidents.

“We thank God because we have been achieving the target; when there is an accident, we have a toll free line 112 for anybody to call and we will quickly respond,” he said.

Omeje said that the corps still needed to do more in passing the message of the dangers in drunk driving, adding that there had been a significant improvement.

“It is customary in FRSC that at a point like this in the year, the corps will double its efforts in actualising one of its core mandates of educating the motoring public.

“We go on a rigorous campaign on the proper use of the highway and sensitisation on the inherent dangers in driving under the influence of alcohol.

“To some, it might look that we are not getting the result because of the available statistics; I want to say, we are winning the war only that it will take time.

“To double our effort is the reason why we are taking the campaign to the backyard of commercial drivers themselves which is their parks,’’ he said.

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