Saudi Drivers Top the World in Road Deaths

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Saudi Drivers Top the World in Road Deaths


Saudi Arabia found to have the highest road accident death toll in the world.

An average of 17 Saudi Arabian residents die on the country's roads each day, a report by the Kingdom's General Directorate of Traffic has revealed.

The news comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) found Saudi Arabia to have the world's highest number of deaths from road accidents, which now make up the country's principal cause of death in adult males aged 16 to 36.

First reported by the Saudi daily Arab News, the study found that 6,485 people had died and more than 36,000 were injured in over 485,000 traffic accidents during 2008 and 2009.

There was no official reaction to the unfortunate world record, and Saudi analysts pointed to larger underlying problems.

"The driving problems are with young people," Ali Abdul-Rahman Al-Mazyad, a Saudi columnist in Riyadh told The Media Line. "There are very little outlets for young people to enjoy themselves and kids basically do what they want."

The report found that almost a third of traffic accidents in the Saudi capital Riyadh were due to drivers jumping red lights, followed by 18 percent of accidents caused by illegal U-turns. The most common dangerous driving activities were speeding, sudden stops and speaking on the phone while driving.

Over the past two decades Saudi Arabia has recorded 4 million traffic accidents, leading to 86,000 deaths and 611,000 injuries, 7 percent of which resulted in permanent disabilities.

A recent study at the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), a Riyadh-based scientific research group, warned that if the current rise in road accident rates is not curbed, Saudi Arabia will have over 4 million traffic accidents a year by 2030.

Silvio Saadi, a Jeddah-based businessman and film producer, argued that an out-of-control youth culture were to blame.

"You won't believe what you see," he told The Media Line. "It's just crazy."

"Saudis often try to drift with normal cars and thousands of spectators on the sides of the street," he said, referring to an informal motor sport in which drivers intentionally over-steer so as to lose traction and drift on the road. "Sometimes the car drifts into the spectators, slamming them into buildings along the sidewalk."

A few years ago they built a Jeddah raceway to attract young people to do it on the track instead of on the streets, but people still like to do it the old fashioned Bedouin way."

Saudi Arabia has long had a taste for expensive cars, and spottings of young Saudis cruising the streets of Jeddah and Riyadh in Maseratis, Ferraris, Porsches and Harley Davidson motorbikes are increasingly commonplace.

One of the Middle East's largest car markets, automobile sales make up about three percent of Saudi Arabia's gross domestic product.

Saudi car sales are now expected to boom. The kingdom's car market, including both commercial automobiles and transport infrastructure, is currently worth about $9 billion. The market is expected to grow by 30 percent in 2010.

Over 675,000 cars are expected to be sold in 2010 to a population of just under 25 million.


:tti_sister:May Allah swt help them and keep them in safe and May Allah swt bless upon all muslim~Amin!


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queenislam

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That they have so many deaths from car accidents. Its pretty well known that they speed like crazy.

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pretty correct sister.
It a sad thing.They are still very young.

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Obase

Speaks his mind...
May be its time to allow women to drive and let them set the standard which the men can aspire to.
 

kayleigh

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Ahh...why do you think this is?
How easy is it to get a drivers license in KSA?

Not sure how easy it is. However... I've heard a lot of answers that try to explain why reckless driving and speeding is so common there.

I think the problem is that too many young men have too much time, too little responsibilities, and way too much money on their hands and have no other way of seeking thrill or adventure - there's no women, no drugs, no alcohol, and very few other ways to "rebel" or "have fun". No one bothers to tell them its a bad idea, and even if they did they'd never listen.

I mean - why do a lot of kids, everywhere, do stupid things? Usually because they have nothing better to do and because they think they're exceptional and special and that nothing bad could happen to them, so they don't think about it when they put themselves in dangerous situations. They think they'll never die young. Every encounter or experience I've had with wealthy Saudis is pretty much all the same. They do think they're better than other people - too good to do certain things, like hold blue collar jobs. I think Saudi society is so tightly controlled that some things that are problems elsewhere are magnified there and become even bigger problems.

anyway, that's just my thought on it. I don't think anyone really knows for sure why they do it so often. But they really need to try to do something about it. I don't even think they have police to catch and fine people who speed, do they? They don't really do much to punish people who speed, but if they did it would probably have to be a pretty harsh punishment since $80 or $100 fine, like it is here, wouldn't really matter to a lot of them.

I just think its funny that they ban women from driving, but yet its clear that the men don't know how to drive either. With the way they drive I'm not sure if I would want a woman on the road...
 

ShyHijabi

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I think the problem is that too many young men have too much time, too little responsibilities, and way too much money on their hands

That is what I've gathered from various blogs and some documentaries written by Saudis. The kids are bored out of their mind but also don't have any responsibilities to give them a sense of pride.

When I was growing up my mother had me working very hard with both indoor and outdoors jobs. I raked the yard, fed the animals, cleaned the entire house, and cooked the household meals. By the age of 10 I was fairly self sufficient and knew how to keep a household intact and running. We never had maids and the idea was quite amazing to me when I discovered that a lot of Eastern households have maids even with stay at home wives.

So many kids are spoiled rotten both in the West and East and then the parents are perplexed when their kids turn out to be self entitled brats. I have discussed this my husband at length and we agree our kids will be raised to be hard workers. And they will NOT get new cars at 16 and allowed to drive without inhibition. They want a car, they will help pay for the insurance and costs, so part time job for them.
 

kayleigh

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That is what I've gathered from various blogs and some documentaries written by Saudis. The kids are bored out of their mind but also don't have any responsibilities to give them a sense of pride.

When I was growing up my mother had me working very hard with both indoor and outdoors jobs. I raked the yard, fed the animals, cleaned the entire house, and cooked the household meals. By the age of 10 I was fairly self sufficient and knew how to keep a household intact and running. We never had maids and the idea was quite amazing to me when I discovered that a lot of Eastern households have maids even with stay at home wives.

So many kids are spoiled rotten both in the West and East and then the parents are perplexed when their kids turn out to be self entitled brats. I have discussed this my husband at length and we agree our kids will be raised to be hard workers. And they will NOT get new cars at 16 and allowed to drive without inhibition. They want a car, they will help pay for the insurance and costs, so part time job for them.

I recently saw an interview on CNBC with some guy from the Saudi government (something to do with labor or finances, can't remember his title), and when asked if he would consider trying to convince Saudis to do blue collar construction jobs in order to help with their high unemployment rates he was very fast to say absolutely not - he wouldn't even consider it. To me, that kind of embodies the mindset over there. The whole thing is an entirely foreign concept to me, and honestly, I don't think I ever want to understand what little logic is behind it.

and people wonder why their kids turn out bad...
 

queenislam

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I recently saw an interview on CNBC with some guy from the Saudi government (something to do with labor or finances, can't remember his title), and when asked if he would consider trying to convince Saudis to do blue collar construction jobs in order to help with their high unemployment rates he was very fast to say absolutely not - he wouldn't even consider it. To me, that kind of embodies the mindset over there. The whole thing is an entirely foreign concept to me, and honestly, I don't think I ever want to understand what little logic is behind it.

and people wonder why their kids turn out bad...

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No comment on your view i respect your point of view.

Anyway ez says than done but those are practically kids in Saudi my only thought and running doubts that this is unnatural and as how to how come it should end up on getting in trouble and tragedy.What most,worse is the losing of their precious life!!!:astag:

All i could think of is that it could be a conspiracy in these or some scam somehow or rather and that getting the worse happened to these youth and still happening :(

And really saddened me more is that they are our family in Islam !

Then when you look ahead there some adult teaching indirectly to these kids maybe the influences of such view like these

Caution!!!First,Pls put silence to the respective video music/people singing.Thanks!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqt9EMYyZwc
Bad Drivers, Worst Drivers Ever!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33You2LUdiE&feature=related
car accident while drifting - saudi

spot the similarity???

and more and Only Allah knows best.

Let hope that if The World Health Organization (WHO) found Saudi Arabia to have the world's highest number of deaths from road accidents They could also fill them in,in helping them to be The world's highest number of safe road user in the future~Insya allah after all they can tackle almost problem with human nature.

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Tabassum07

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Regarding this topic, growing up, we used to hear a lot of stories of road accidents in Saudia. My dad used to jokingly say that over there the death angels drive on the roads and take people's lives this way. Probably because there were a couple of stories where they said a speeding car appeared out of nowhere, and noone could tell where the car went afterwards after the accident.


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queenislam

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Do they have traffic lights? o_O

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Definately they do brother :)

Haven't you been to The kingdom of Saudi Arabia yet or atleast prior by surfing visiting?

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