Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) are collaborating to develop an equipment that will be capturing the number plates of traffic offenders.
Director-General of NBRRI, Prof. Samson Duna, said this when he led his team on a courtesy visit to the acting FRSC Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, on Wednesday in Abuja.
Duna said that NBRRI was funding the equipment that would try to capture traffic offenders, especially those who beat traffic lights nationwide.
According to him, in developing countries, with Nigeria being a case study, it has been found out that traffic offenders usually break traffic rules and start running away, especially if law enforcement are not there.
“So what NBRRI is trying to do now is to collaborate with the road safety, especially in developing the equipment.
“This equipment will be the one that can capture the vehicle number plates of such traffic offender or those who break traffic light.
“We believe that once that is done, I am sure the issue of breaking traffic laws will be minimised to the barest minimum as much as possible,” he said.
Earlier, the acting FRSC Corps Marshal, Dauda Biu, said that the there was much importance of research and information gathering in order to ensure improved service delivery on road traffic management in the country.
Biu assured the NBRRI Director-General of the corps’ preparedness to set up a technical team with the research institute to identify areas of synergy and engagement toward improving road condition across the country.
He said that FRSC and NBRRI do share relevant data with each other on road safety, road safety audits, traffic count, traffic crash and locations of pavement failures, among others.
“The two agencies are members of Technical Working Group of the National Road Safety Advisory Council (NARSAC) to achieve the targets of UN decades of action on our nation’s highways.
“I will like to appreciate this collaboration from you, as it will help us to track these traffic offenders and minimise possible crashes,” he said.
