THE management of Toyota is billed to meet soon with the Federal Road Safety Corps over the high frequencies of crashes involving Toyota Hiace buses resulting in fire incidents, FRSC Corps Marshal, Osita Chidoka, has said.
Chidoka said in an interview with our correspondent that Toyota had indicated that it would visit the corps to discuss the mechanical and technical problems associated with Toyota Hiace buses.
Chidoka said in an interview with our correspondent that Toyota had indicated that it would visit the corps to discuss the mechanical and technical problems associated with Toyota Hiace buses.
The Corps Marshal said he was expecting Toyota officials in his office and expressed his readiness to work with them to see how the rate of accidents involving Hiace buses could be reduced.
The corps had said that a study conducted by its men on Toyota Hiace commuter buses between 2007 and 2012 found that the brand was involved in 1,844 road accidents.
The study indicated that road crashes involving buses had been on the increase since 2007, but that there was an average yearly increase of 126 crashes involving Toyota Hiace buses, representing 48 per cent of total buses involved in accidents.
Chidoka had said that 31 per cent of all the buses involved in crashes resulted in fire incidents, noting that Nigeria started recording high Toyota Hiace crashes in August 2010.
On the reported deadline for use of the new number plate, the Corps Marshall said it was only the Joint Tax Board that could give the deadline for the use of the facility.
“It is only the Joint Tax Board that can fix the deadline for the new number plate; they were the one that fixed the price of the number plate and we are waiting to hear from them about the deadline for the adoption of the new number plate,” he added.
