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Road accidents costing Saudi economy $7 bln
Jul 04, 2009 at 15:57
Cost of treating accident victim up around $32,000, says leading professor, branding it 'huge waste of money'.
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By: osman ABDULKARIM
Posted: Jul 05, 2009 at 08:51
My God this confirms the joke of the American citizen who came for the first time to Saudi Arabia.

When he saw how the traffic and how people here drive, he was astonished.

His friend who was in Saudi Arabia for a long time said to him: "You might get killed in America by a happy-trigger Punk, but 100% sure you will die in Saudi Arabia in a traffic accident!"

The matter, in my opinion, needs more than laws and law enforcement personnel, it needs education from family, schools and universities, and good use of media.

That would be together with a mobile exhibition that moves around cities of the Kingdom showing the most horrible traffic accident committed in this country under the effect of drugs or alcohol etc..

Working with, of course, stringent penalties, traffic control and enforcement...
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