Terrible Road Accident Rate in the UAE.
 

I guess this is no surprise to those of us living here, maybe they will do something.


Majority of road accident victims Emirati - Transportation - ArabianBusiness.com

Majority of road accident victims Emirati
by Dylan Bowman on Saturday, 21 June 2008

ALARMING FIGURES: The majority of victims of car crashes in the UAE are young Emiratis, the DPE has said.
Most victims of road accidents in the United Arab Emirates are young Emiratis despite the fact that UAE nationals make up just 15 percent of the Gulf state's population, Abu Dhabi's Department of Planning and Economy (DPE) has revealed.

The DPE said on Saturday in its weekly report carried by state news agency WAM that the number of fatal road accidents in the UAE jumped 27 percent to 1,056 in 2007, up from 830 in 2005.

The department said one person dies every eight hours as a result of road accidents, blaming the high number of fatalities on speeding.

It said "most of those victims were young UAE nationals", without being more specific.

The department described the figures as "alarming".

The department said that around 25 out of every 100 people in UAE road accidents die.

The DPE said the fatality ratio was three times higher than in many Western counties.

I think 'alarming' should be replaced with 'not surprising'

You give spoilt children shed loads of cash to go out and buy flash cars........

Drive a Hummer and be well protected, and be the king of the road.

I suppose it's good news:eek: , at least not many ex-pats involved.

As said before, young male arabs no nowt about discipline, starts at a young age and , as we read, ends at a young age.

....or a black GMC like the one the moron local in the springs that passed me on the grass and hit my car.....but what to do.

And that figure is only going to drop further - on the plus side though, it'll mean less fatal car accidents! :ok:

Sure, it's well known that expats lifes are more valuable than others.

Its not that expats lives are worth more, its that the young Emeratis have been indulged and spoilt and don't appreciate the consequences of their behavior. The governments own statistics prove it.

sispanys ria
 

If Sispanys ria ever, ever gets a seat flying anything in the gulf let me know...... after looking at his posts here and on other threads... the thought of engaging brain before typing, talking or walking seems somewhat beyond our friend................... :ugh:

Hi thought he worked with you Scottie!!!
And I'm having a Dewars...at home...not driving.

Ahh, good old Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection at work.:8 Let the idiots kill themselves off.

I asked a young local lad I work with several months ago "why do you drive like you do"...reply...."we are invincible" !!!!!!!!

...."we are invincible" !!!!!!!!

Actually, so was I at their age. However, I could only afford a Beetle........

It is when these "invincible" idiots take out innocents, it becomes more tragic.

who knows?
 

Or could it be that ex-pats value their own life more...??

It's the overrated self-esteem thing. One guy i flew with said that locals should be allowed to drive faster because they think faster and are therfore the better drivers. Not surprisingly he didn't demonstrate that skill at controls. Not to say he was worse, but quite average, as we all are, only human.
The problem is, as was said before, that at a certain stage we men all feel supernatural. There the parents, teachers and the society, but especially fathers, have to step in and give most of us a reality check. Actually this fades out in western societies, with divorces single parents or ill fated patchwork families, thus the rising problems with our youth. But in a society where women count less and any authority but the fathers of the tribe belonging to a certain religion is disrespected, such reality checks don't happen at all. Especially as the fathers excell more in chasing money and blondes than beeing at home.
But i agree, it's natural selection which ultimately leaves the more reasonable who survive.

That and most ex-pats understand the term "free-will" and know that actions have consequences. While most locals understand that it's "Allah's will" and I can do what I want because I'm not responsible for my actions.

While Neil and Buzz were bouncing around on the moon, this lot you refer to was still on the back of a camel. Fat chance of that happening.

The mind can only develop as far as the society it lives in allows. Autobahn vis a vis SZR. Couple of other examples I can think of, but will probably get banned from this site.

Same problems existed in all western countries some years ago, it's a question of social education. The GCCs developement pace doesn't mean the local society is able to evolve at the same speed. You always learn from your mistakes, and like in any other country, things will change due to experience and not thanks to your comments on this forum.
Each society has its own characteristics (cultural, religious etc...) and I find very cheap to pretend being able to compare with others. The most worring thing is when we export our "mistakes" into developing countries. While tobacco is being drastically controlled in Europe, it is still promoted in the rest of the world, as Mc Donalds' junk food.

I'm still amused to see how many people are here only to complain. Probably that those who are not have better things to do... Too bad to be here and unhappy... life is short and time shouldn't be wasted.

Life is especially short when wrapped around a lamp post on the Al Ain road aged 19 and three quarters.