Muscat: Three people were killed in a car crash on Sohar on Monday, according to the Royal Oman Police (ROP).
A speeding car carrying two women and a child collided with another vehicle, killing two occupants and seriously injuring one in the first vehicle, and killing the driver of the other vehicle and injuring its occupant.
A spokesperson for the ROP said that the crash caused one of the vehicles to split into two.
The ROP appealed against speeding and urged motorists to abide by traffic rules.
In the last 11 years, nearly 11,000 people have been killed and 70,000 injured, some disabled for life, due to road accidents in Oman.
Last year, 1,051 people were killed on Omani roads and 11,322 were injured. The fatalities on roads increased almost by 25 per cent in 2011. The first month of 2012 saw 70 deaths on Oman's roads.
Last week, twenty people died on the roads across the country, according to statistics released by the ROP.
