Riyadh’s Accident Hotspot: Uncovering the City’s Most Treacherous Neighborhood for Drivers
Riyadhs Most Accident-Prone Neighborhoods Revealed
The Traffic Accident Monitoring Center of Riyadh Municipality has increased its focus on inventory and study framework to address locations with high rates of accidents and ensure safe transportation systems. The center revealed that the Al Rawdah neighborhood, located in the east of the capital, has the highest incidence of traffic accidents.
According to experts, the results of the analysis made in a spatial framework covering the perimeter of Al-Rawdah Neighborhood by Accident Monitoring attributed the high rate of accidents in this famous neighborhood of Riyadh to the behavior of motorists, such as sudden deviations and distraction from driving.
More specifically, data obtained by Al Arabiya.net indicates that the eastern and western areas of the Saudi capital are also among the highest accident rates for the same period, topping the list, with around 1,049 traffic injuries in the Namar neighborhood in the west of the capital, while the results show that the capital Roads in the Al-Rimal neighborhood east of Riyadh ranked third in terms of accident rates with 571 injuries. Then Tuwaik neighborhood in the west, about 517 people were injured.
The Northern Neighborhoods Are Less
Meanwhile, Accident Monitoring statistics also show that the Al-Arid area in the north of the city has the fifth highest accident rate, with 331 people injured in the past two years, evidence that the northern areas of Riyadh have the lowest accident rates compared to roads east or west of the capital.
10,080 Traffic Accidents in 3 Years
At a time when the center needs work, which has many responsibilities to create programs and initiatives aimed at road safety, Al Arabiya.net visited the headquarters, where as soon as you enter, you will see the capital’s roads from 2022 until the end of last month. 12,222 people were injured and about 174 died in Riyadh.
Notable Cause
At the same time, data also indicate that the five most prominent causes of accidents at the city level are: distraction from driving, speeding, failure to obey traffic rules, sudden deviation and failure to leave a safe distance.
Strategies to Increase Traffic Safety
Elaborating on the center, the journey of processing traffic accident sites within it begins with receiving data from relevant authorities and then analyzing and processing it. To assemble and prepare them, then create a heat map of accident sites in the city, identify black spots using international standards and technical methods, and then conduct traffic studies and design and treat hazardous sites using engineering methods; Increase traffic safety.
Engineer Abdulaziz Al-Awni Al-Arabiya, director of the Traffic Accident Monitoring Center, told Dotnet that the modern technologies used in the Traffic Accident Monitoring Center analyze the causes of accidents to solve them and find out the causes, such as: “Traffic problems – lack of directional signs – ground color.” We then treat it so that this event does not happen again where the potential for danger increases significantly.
Reduce Accidents
Al-Awni looks forward to new perspectives at the center launched by the Riyadh Municipality, indicating that at times traffic data was not always available, as any organization specialized in accident monitoring enjoyed the availability of traffic results data, but it did not arrive. For example, the Secretariat, but our reality today has become different, which means that the capital is experiencing a new phase to reduce the rate of traffic accidents, improve the quality of life and increase safety opportunities, and this is what we hope, according to him.
Accident Data Analysis
While strengthening its work at the Riyadh Municipality Traffic Accident Monitoring Center, the center itself analyzes accident data and their occurrence locations until it classifies them as black spot locations – places that regularly witness accidents – and then starts addressing them. And study the reasons for the increase in accidents there through methods based on scientific research.
Expansion Coming Soon
Engineer Abdulaziz Al-Awni, director of the Traffic Accident Monitoring Center, said that there are more than fifty black spots in Riyadh, noting that the center was established on the basis of high technology to study the most dangerous places in the capital. Desire to expand to all regions of the country so that the rate of road accidents in Saudi Arabia is low.
Al-Awni added that the center’s objectives include several initiatives, such as: “increasing the level of traffic safety in parks, schools and mosques,” installing information signs, securing sidewalks and identifying the most dangerous places. Study them and develop emergency and strategic solutions as needed.
Budget for Neighborhood
The Accident Monitoring Center has allocated a budget to deal with the neighborhoods of the capital Riyadh, to ensure a safety factor for those who travel on its roads, however, the center revealed to Al Arabiya.net that most of the budget is in some neighborhoods that are urgent and strategic. It was assigned to find solutions such as: to improve the security level of al-Arid, Tuwaik and al-Rimal.
Necessary Recommendations
In addition, special field teams of the Center visit key locations in the capital Riyadh, to strengthen the level of safety on its roads and address the causes of accidents occurring there, if any, identifying problems causing black spots at intersections besides road connectivity within the city of Riyadh, and traffic safety and Engineering design is coming up with necessary recommendations to address these positions.
At some point, the health care bill for those injured as a result of traffic accidents doubled, but the Traffic Accident Monitoring Center developed a set of studies and designs distributed across the geographical perimeter of Riyadh city, in order to improve traffic safety. Employing accident statistical data in the study and design of all traffic impact study sites at neighborhood and municipal levels, and land use projects and road network development.
The center will reduce the cost of health care bills caused by accidents at a time when the country aspires to increase the life expectancy of its citizens. On the other hand, Saudi Arabia has recently made many improvements in terms of traffic safety, as it has reduced the number of traffic accident deaths by 50%, and the injury rate by 35%. decreased by, according to the results of the report of the World Health Organization.