Citation

Ofosu JB, Abouammoh AM, Bener A. Accid. Anal. Prev. 1988; 20(2): 95-101.

Affiliation

Department of Statistics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3358837

Abstract

In Saudi Arabia, with its rapid expansion of road construction and increase in the number of vehicles, road traffic accidents are becoming a serious public health problem. The object of this paper is to discuss the magnitude of this problem and to compare the situation with that of other rich, developing countries which have also had rapid expansion of road construction and increase in the number of vehicles. It appears that Saudi Arabia has lower accident rates but higher casualty and fatality rates than Kuwait.