One dead, 13 injured in Ras Al Khaimah road accident

Ras Al Khaimah: A Pakistani labourer died and 13 other Asians of various nationalities sustained moderate and serious injuries when a bus collided with a heavy vehicle on Al Liwa’a Street on Saturday.

A senior officer at the Ras Al Khaimah Traffic and Licensing Department said the 40 year old Pakistani labourer Abdul Salam Khan Ahmad was announced dead at the accident scene, five labourers sustained serious injuries and eight others sustained moderate injuries.

The officer said the 25-year-old bus driver identified as M.Kh.M who was transporting labourers entered Al Liwa’a main street from a secondary road without checking the traffic flow on that main street.

He added that the bus collided with a heavy vehicle which was on the street at the time, and that the collision was so serious that it caused the death of one labour and the injury of 13 other labourers.

The officer said once the accident was reported to the emirate’s authorities, several police patrols and ambulances arrived to the scene, where the wounded people were taken to Saqr Hospital, where those with serious injuries were admitted to the ICU. The dead body of the Pakistani victim was taken to the morgue of the hospital to be later handed to his family for burial.

Police patrols shut off the street for a while till the scene was cleared and the wounded people were taken in ambulances to the hospital, and later the two vehicles were shifted from the scene and the street was reopened for the traffic flow.

The officer stressed that the initial investigations in the accident showed that it was the solely mistake of the bus driver whose reckless driving was blamed for the accident despite the fact that he was fully aware of the nature of the busy street which he entered with his bus without paying the necessary attention to the traffic flow on it. The officer said that the Pakistani driver of the heavy vehicle, identified as N.K ran the accident unharmed and told the police investigators that he did not do commit any mistake in the accident.

The officer said that the death toll on the RAK roads raised to 12 since the beginning of this year, half of whom were Emiratis and the other half were expatriates of different nationalities.