The Ministry of Interior’s safety strategy is beginning to reap dividends with the number of deaths and injuries on the country’s roads falling in the first three months of the year.
The number of traffic-related deaths during this period was 181, compared with 192 in the same period last year – a drop of 6.3 per cent, according to statistics released by the general directorate of traffic coordination at the Ministry of Interior.
Traffic-related injuries reached 1,984, compared with 2,048 in 2013, a fall of 3.1 per cent.
There was also a decrease in accidents with 1,295 in the first three months of 2014 compared with 1,353 last year, a drop of 4.3 per cent.
Brig Gen Ghaith Al Zaabi, director general of traffic coordination at the Ministry of Interior, said the decrease resulted from the efficiency of the ministry’s strategy to enhance road safety.
Brig Al Zaabi wants the decrease to continue. He urged motorists and road users to abide by traffic rules and regulations, to spare themselves and others risk of traffic accidents, resulting in injury and loss of life and property and maintain their own safety and as well as others.
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