Traffic accidents during the past week claimed the lives of 3 people and injured 76 others, 26 of whom were seriously injured, while material losses amounted to 11 million and 620 thousand riyals.

Traffic statistics, based on the daily reports of the General Administration of Traffic Police and published by the security media of the Ministry of Interior, showed that the same period witnessed the occurrence of 85 traffic accidents in various liberated regions and governorates, distributed among 58 vehicle collision incidents, 15 pedestrian run-over incidents, and 11 vehicle rollover incidents. And an accident where he fell from a car.

The statistics confirmed that vehicle drivers’ violation of rules, laws, and traffic etiquette is behind most of these accidents, including exceeding the speed limit and the specified load, wrong and dangerous transgressions, being occupied with other than the road, neglecting to maintain distances between and beyond, repeatedly parking in the street, neglecting regular maintenance of the vehicle, and ensuring that Its dilapidated technical validity, especially the European ones, the use of poor spare parts, the bikes, their reckless driving methods, and their violation of the laws.