The Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, is planning a national summit which it said was aimed at addressing the issue of road crashes in the country.

The summit, which is slated for June 15 at the Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, will equally address the challenge of articulated vehicles on the nation’s highways.

FRSC spokesperson, Imoh Etuk, said the commission in partnership with critical stakeholders in the country would fashion out ways to tackle the perennial road crashes that had bedeviled the nation in recent years.

Etuk quoted the corps marshal of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, as stating that the commission was particularly bothered about the menace of articulated vehicles, which account for 40 per cent of road crashes.

He noted that the commission is not relenting in its efforts to ensure road safety, adding that it has scaled up “engagement plans with stakeholders in the haulage industry and has also set out minimum safety standards for the conveyance of wet and dry cargoes to any part of the country, in line with the provisions of the National Road Traffic Regulations, 2012.”

He also said the FRSC has conducted a study on the 44 tank farms and their various locations across the country, with the hope of creating polices backed by stronger legal framework to checkmate excesses of the tanker drivers in addition to strategies for safer road use.

This and other issues, he said, would serve as the framework of the national summit.