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crash/incident reporting. In 2015 the Nigerian government introduced 20 new Mobile Care
Units and 26 new transport ambulances that will be stationed at the 26 general hospitals.
The Federal Road Safety Corps is expanding their fleet with more ambulances and tow trucks
and they establish emergency ambulance points along major corridors. The collection of road
accident data is very important to have a complete overview of the road safety problems. With
outdated road accident reporting systems a lot of accidents are not reported giving an
incomplete and false overview. To solve road safety problems and understanding of the road
accident situation is required and complete data is needed. The FRSC is collaborating with the
Federal Ministry of Health for the collection of injury data and the FRSC is introducing the new
template for the collection of road traffic crash data.
Reports of road crashes are channelled mainly through several informal and unstructured
media, including the emergency toll free line. The location of the crash is then directed to a FRSC
(Federal Road Safety Corps) patrol vehicle that is nearest to the crash scene. The data is collected
by people of the FRSC filling in a notebook entry or by the police filling in the paper accident
report form at the accident site (Sumaila, 2013).