CultureShock! Saudi Arabia by Peter North

Author:Peter North
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9789814435277
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish

That’s the good news about driving. The bad news is that the nation’s highways and byways are downright dangerous places to be. Those who hold that the female of the species is the more dangerous one on the roads than the male will find little support for their case from the road accident statistics of Saudi Arabia. That Saudi roads are perilous places is evident merely by driving through the countryside. The nation’s highways are littered with wrecked cars that are merely dragged to the side of the road and abandoned as a silent testimony to the hazards of driving on the nation’s roads.

The Perils of Motoring

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Saudi Arabia has the world’s highest number of deaths from road accidents. From 2008 to 2009, the kingdom saw a total number of 485,000 traffic accidents, which resulted in 6,485 deaths. Saudi Arabia fared even worse in comparison when this was measured in fatalities per vehicle. Saudi Arabia has road accidents at about three times the rate of Western countries like the USA and Britain. Various studies have also been conducted to determine the cause of Saudi Arabia’s high accident rate. According to one of many reports on the subject—an epidemiology of road traffic accidents in the Al-Ahssaa Governorate: ‘Very high speed was responsible for about 70 per cent of accidents’. (Alcohol can certainly be ruled out as a principal cause of accidents.)

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