On an average two children fell victim to traffic accidents every month during the course of last year, according to NCSI’s traffic system report. Photo: File
Muscat: More than 53 per cent of road traffic accidents in 2021 were caused by speeding and over 20 children under the age of 7 years were victims of these accidents.
Traffic accidents in the Sultanate of Oman during 2021 caused the death of 24 children under the age of 7 years, at a rate of two children every month, according to the traffic system report published by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
According to the report, 84 children under the age of 7 were injured in the traffic accidents last year, constituting 5.3 per cent of the total traffic accident victims in 2021.
The report also revealed that more than half of the deaths in traffic accidents were in the age group of 26 to 50 years, that is, 221 people, constituting 51.2 per cent of the traffic deaths in Oman.
Over 53 percent or 820 traffic accidents in 2021 were caused by speed, 282 due to misconduct, 453 due to negligence, 122 caused by disregard for safe distance norms, 56 due to overtaking, 41 due to defects in vehicle and 65 traffic accidents were caused by other reasons.
