CHECKLIST

Protect yourself and others:

1. Drive defensively.
2. Don’t drive after drinking.
3. Make sure you and your passengers wear seat belts.
4. Use appropriate and properly installed car seats for small children.
5. Have adequate insurance coverage

Oman Car Accidents

Each year there are about 10,000 car crashes in Oman resulting in 680 deaths and 7550 injuries. The causes of these crashes include speed, driver neglect, tiredness, drunk driving, overtaking, weather, sudden stops, safe distance, improper acts, vehicle condition, road condition and cell phone use. Oman’s road traffic death rate is 28 per 100,000 population which is far higher than the global average of 19 killed per 100,000. Driving in Oman said to be quite easy, especially since the completion of a six-lane superhighway connecting Muscat and Nizwa and Sur. Many people drive 4 wheel drives to see the scenic countryside

In The Sultanate, an average of 14 deaths per WEEK are recorded due to road traffic accidents. Injured persons number over 100 per week. Only God almighty knows, how many of these will be up and about again as useful working citizens, and the rest will become a burden to themselves, their families and Society in general.Major reasons of many accidents, in my personal opinion, are as follows:-Lack of understanding of the mechanism and discipline of the Motor Driving practice (How far does a vehicle need to stop when brakes applied at a certain speed)(how much distance we need to keep between two vehicles running at speed) How attentive we must be when on the motor way) etc.etc.
-Lack of respect and adherence to road signs.(these were put at a great expense and after many years of study of road use and road users safety)
-Non existence of qualified driving instructors to teach any safe driving methods.
-No respect or consideration for other road users.(the attitude of ME first)
-Allowing youth at age 18 to be in possession of and driving very sophisticated and powerful vehicles.
-The occasional BEER and other Alcoholic drink and drive.
The list is endless, and it is really a very sad situation. We are losing many young and innocent lives on road accidents, depriving the Country of very much needed talents ant use4ful citizens.

Statistics

Algeria

Rather than acknowledge the magnitude of the trauma, Algeria’s leaders prefer to stress their ability to end the violence. In 2003, according to an unofficial interior ministry report, terrorism-linked clashes killed fewer than 1,500, including some 450 armed Islamists - less than the annual average 4,000 road accident fatalities and not comparable with the black decade, when between up to 200,000 people were killed.



Bahrain

A total of 137,096 traffic accidents were recorded in Bahrain between 2002 and last year, statistics issued by the General Directorate of Traffic revealed yesterday....
The statistics show that 228 people were killed and 9,805 seriously injured during the period....
About 7.4 per cent of accidents were reported between 4pm and 5pm and 36pc between 4pm and 10pm.
Sixty three pc of the injury accidents occurred on roads with a speed limit of within 50 kmph, 13.7pc accidents happened at traffic signals and 6.4pc at roundabouts.
According to the statistics, speeding caused 5.2pc of the injury accidents while 4pc were due to careless pedestrians, 4.6pc to driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and 4.6pc due to jumping red lights. The rest occurred due to other traffic violations....
Of all drivers at fault in injury accidents, 42pc were within the age group of 20 to 29 years and 28pc had under one year of driving experience....


China

Officially, the Chinese government says 300 people die every day in vehicle crashes on the country's roads and byways. But the World Health Organization says that the real number is 680 traffic deaths a day. That compares with about 115 per day in the United States, where there are about eight times as many vehicles as in China, according to figures from the Chinese government and R.L. Polk & Co.
Road accidents are killing over 18,500 children under 14 years old in China each year. Statistics show that in 2003, approximately 300 people, on average. were killed in car
accidents each day in China


India

"...In India it’s the roads themselves that are the country’s murderers: 164 people die on them each day and a quarter of the world’s bus crashes occur here..."

Kuwait

Kuwait, with about one million vehicles on its roads, has reported an 18.1 per cent rise in the number of deaths from traffic accidents.
Interior ministry assistant undersecretary Major-General Thabet Al Muhanna said 372 people died in 2003, 57 more than in 2002, as a result of 45,400 traffic accidents.
In addition, 405 people were seriously injured and 927 others received light wounds.
Kuwait has a population of some 2.5 million people, 900,000 of whom are indigenous citizens and the rest foreign workers and their families.


Oman

A total of 10,197 road accidents occurred in the Sultanate in 2003, causing the death of 578 persons and injuring 6,735, according to the statistics issued by the Royal Oman Police.

South Korea

According to the Korea Insurance Development Institute on Sunday, out of 725,796 car accidents on which insurance claims were made during the 2003 fiscal year -- from April 1, 2003 until March 31, 2004 -- 24,036 accidents (3.3 percent) resulted from drunk driving....
The percentage of accidents involving serious offences such as hit and runs and driving without a license was highest in North Gyeongsang province with 21.1 percent, followed by Jeju and Gangwon provinces with 20.9 and 20.2 percent, respectively.


United Arab Emirates

In 2003, there were 7,397 serious traffic accidents in the UAE, 873 deaths & over 10,000 injuries. Relative to the number of vehicles on the road, UAE has six times more deaths from road traffic accidents per year than the USA & Europe.

Driving to Death

see this video now.............


It is realy sad thing to see someone die in front of you or when you miss one member of your family or your friend at accident.isn't it?
If you want to see more videos about car accidents go to http://www.youtube.com/

LOOK AT YOUR CHILDREN

My dear driver.....

take care of your self...Think of your family don't kill their smile.... Think and think and

rethink of you children don't kill their childhood.....drive your car carefully to be happy with your

best family and friends...... If you don't care about yourself think of other's lives.....let us live in

peace without blood and kill because this accidents are like a war to us......

Give me your opinion for my advice