No fewer than 38 persons died and 206 injured in various accidents in Ondo State in the first quarter of 2013.
Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Mrs Mary Wakawa, told newsmen, Tuesday, in Akure that incidents occurred between January and March. She said that the number of deaths occurred in 64 accidents.
She said: “This shows a reduction in the number of accidents recorded in the same period in 2012 in the state, when 77 people died and 423 were injured.’’
Wakawa also said that about 275 people had been prosecuted in this first quarter of 2013, who were involved in various traffic offences.
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