GCC: Unified regional system to be launched to monitor speeding
Source: Middle East Insurance Review | Mar 2018
The GCC will soon implement a unified system to monitor speeding on roads in member countries, said media reports, adding that the new system will be introduced in coordination with the Customs Department in each member state.
A senior officer in the Eastern Province Traffic Department in Saudi Arabia, who revealed this, said that the respective departments will work with the punishment commission to identify reckless drivers and assign them to do community services, reported Saudi Gazette.
According to statistics issued by the Traffic Safety Committee in the province, one person is killed in a traffic accident on the Kingdom’s roads every hour. More than 9,000 people die annually in road accidents across the Kingdom, the committee said.
Mr Abdullah Al-Rajhi, Secretary-General of the committee, said 38,000 people are injured in road accidents annually in the Kingdom. “Road-accident victims occupy 30% of hospital beds in the country,” he said.
He estimated the annual economic losses from traffic accidents to be more than SAR27 billion (US$7.2 billion). M
SAR1 = US$0.27