Oman traffic: Number of accidents in March falls 31%

Muscat: Traffic accidents in the Sultanate registered a significant 30.8 per cent drop in March 2016 compared with the figures during the same month last year, with injuries falling by 21.8 per cent to 236, and fatalities declining by 1.2 per cent to 57, according to the latest report published by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) on traffic accidents.
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However, compared to February, the number of injuries and deaths on the road was higher in March, with a total of 207 injuries and 45 deaths recorded in February.
Meanwhile, the total number of accidents on the Sultanate’s roads last year stood at 6,279 with 3,624 injuries and 675 deaths.
The report further noted that the number of Omani nationals who died in road mishaps increased by 3.7 per cent to 40 in March compared with same month of last year while logging a 19.1 per cent drop in injuries suffered by nationals at 194.
Omani female fatalities dropped by 21.7 per cent to 5 while male deaths increased by 10.6 per cent to 35. Injuries sustained by Omani females declined by 30.1 per cent to 34 in March while the drop was 15 per cent among Omani males at 160.
In the case of expatriates, there had been a 29.7 per cent fall in injuries at 42. Gender wise, only a single female expatriate got injured in accidents in March. In contrast, there were 41 male injuries in March, which however marked a fall of nearly 25 per cent over figures for the same month last year.
The number of expatriates who lost their lives in accidents in March logged a fall of 11.1 per cent at 17 with 16 of them being males, the report said. The drop in fatalities among male and female expatriates pegged at 10.6 per cent and 14.3 per cent respectively in March.