Speeding cause of Oman accident involving Ajman family
Oman Police repatriate bodies of three Emirati women and child involved in Oman accident
Muscat: Speeding was the main cause of a deadly accident that claimed five lives on Saturday morning in Auwafyah area, Royal Oman Police (ROP) said on Sunday.
An Emirati family of four — three women and a 12-year-old boy — were among the deceased.
The victims were residents of Ajman, according to media reports.
The Emirati family’s driver, of Asian nationality, also died in the accident, according to the police.
The driver lost the control of the vehicle, which swerved and collided with a heavy truck belonging to a private company.
The SUV vehicle rammed into the truck, resulting in huge damage to the vehicle.
The bodies of the victims were airlifted to Nizwa Hospital by the Oman Police Aviation. The bodies of the Emirati family were repatriated on Saturday night to Ajman.
The victims were heading to Salalah province, in southern Oman.
In a separate incident, four members of an Indian family were killed in a road accident in Khuwair district of the capital Muscat on Saturday, media reports said.
Speeding and wrong overtaking are the main reasons for the road accidents that have occurred on the Adam-Salalah stretch and claimed dozens of lives of Emiratis in the past five years.
Hundreds of Emiratis visit Salalah for holidays. The province is popular for its moderate temperatures and green landscape.
Twelve Emiratis were killed in different road accidents in Oman in 2015, compared to ten in 2014, according to Royal Oman Police (ROP)
Last March, a Dubai-bound bus was hit by a truck travelling through western Oman’s desert and a passing car later slammed into the wreckage, killing at least 18 people and injuring 16 others
The number of road accidents in 2015 stood at 6,276, compared with 6,717 in 2014. It resulted in the deaths of 675 people compared to 816 in 2014, according to ROP figures.
July was the deadliest month in 2015, with 71 people dead and 406 injured in 626 road accidents. Speeding was the main cause for accidents in 2015, with 3,411 road accidents.
Those aged 16-50 accounted for 46 per cent of those killed in accidents. 570 men and 107 women were killed in accidents in 2015.
The most fatal accident in 2015 occurred in Haima province last July, due to fatigue, which claimed the lives of seven people and left four people injured.
