1537 traffic accidents in Saudi Arabia in 2011

Number of people living in the same year amounted to more than 39 thousand patients and 7153 deaths

The Director of General Directorate of Traffic, Major General Suleiman Ajlan that the number of traffic accidents during 2011, amounted to 544.179 thousand accident or the rate of 1537 incidents per day, indicating that the number of people living in the same year amounted to more than (39.000) infected and (7.153) death rate (20) deaths per day.
The Ajlan that young people representing three-quarters of the deceased, and that in the statistics turned out that Saturday is the most days of the week rise in the proportion of traffic accidents and the least on Friday, noting that the highest percentage of deaths are out of cities by (60%) and (40%) within .
A report by the World Health Organization in 2011, that there are 1.3 million people die each year from throwing traffic accidents, and is expected to claim the lives of traffic accidents about 1.9 million people annually by 2020, if you have not taken any action to prevent this.
The Secretary-General of the National Center for Youth Research, Dr. Nizar Al Saleh, the World Health Organization report in 2011, and the World report on road safety situation, in addition to the reports issued by the International Federation of Red Crescent, the Red Cross, refer to the large size of the problem of traffic accidents and failure to of deaths and permanent disabilities as well as severe injuries to individuals from these accidents.