Seven Yemenis died in traffic accidents

SANA'A, Sep. 08 (Saba)- At least 7 Yemenis were killed and 77 others injured in 53 traffic accidents last Monday in all provinces of
the country.

According to the traffic devices of Interior Ministry, the causes of these
accidents were excessive speed, recklessness, chewing the mild stimulant drug of
qat by drivers,
the lack of periodical maintenance and technical examination of vehicles, the false
go by and the use of mobile phone particularly in highways.
About 524 traffic accidents took place throughout the country during the first
half of the month of Ramadan.
In the first half of Ramadan, nearly 107 people were killed and 729 others were
injured due to traffic accidents. These accidents distributed among 257 crash
accidents,
82 running over and 85 overturns.
Traffic accidents in Yemen are still killing hundreds of people monthly, and they
left many deaths and injuries and widow women and orphans children.
According to yemenonline.info, several reasons cause these accidents, the concerned
authorities mention few of them and ignore the other ones which reveal that they
are
directly or indirectly responsible.
International expert in traffic safety at the Economic and Social Commission for
Western Asia (ESCWA) Bassam Anani said that Yemen is one the most affected
countries by
the traffic accidents.
He pointed out that the numbers of deaths are monitored represent only 70 percent
of the actual numbers because some accidents are not proclaimed.
Moreover, this figure represents the deaths occurred in the scene while the deaths
that occur later on in hospitals are not mentioned.
He said that traffic accidents represent an economic obstacle rather than the bad
humanitarian and social impacts that case a developmental retardation in the
country.
According to figures published by the traffic police, some 39,319 people were
killed and more than 234000 injured in road accidents in Yemen during the period
from 1990
to 2008.
YA