The Federal Road Safety Corps on Monday disclosed that at least 137 Nigerians have lost their lives in traffic Road crashes between September, October and part of November this year out of 172 crashes.

The Zonal Commander of the FRSC Zone 11 Osogbo, Luka Sambo, Kinya while speaking at the 2013 Zonal Conference in Ibadan said this was 12.39 percent of 2012.

He said under the months under review, 750 people were injured which show 5.54 reduction when compared to last year.

The FRSC boss, who described the high rate of road traffic crashes in the three states as alarming, stressed the need for the corps to re-strategize towards meeting the UN and Accra Declaration on road safety.

"The rate at which the zone recorded road traffic crashes this year was so alarming that calls our core mandate to question thereby demanding collective need fiR renewal strategy to curb this menace," he said.

On the theme of the conference, "Re-strategizing Operational Activities to curb Road Traffic Crashes in the Zone, he said it was a welcome issue for serious discussion so as to jointly confront the monster called road traffic crash and its incessant occurrence in the zone.

According to him, as major operators in road traffic management "we have some roles to play if we are to actualize the mandate of reducing road crashes in the zone by marrying our theme with the Corps' theme of attitude."

He charged sector and unit commanders in the zone to change from deploying men to the inter land and obscure points to enhancing FRSC visibility on every highway.

He also urged them to change from late response to road traffic crashes to reducing response time to distress calls to maximum of five minutes.