The Ministry of Health announced that joint efforts in traffic safety and healthcare have contributed to reducing traffic accident fatalities by 60% by the year 2025, as part of integration among relevant authorities to enhance road user safety and reduce deaths and injuries from accidents. Monitoring Systems The Ministry explained that this decrease resulted from a package of measures that included deploying intelligent monitoring systems to enhance compliance with traffic regulations and raise the level of road safety, alongside improving infrastructure and implementing the Road Code, which contributes to providing a safer traffic environment. Integrated System The Health Ministry added that the efforts also included updating traffic legislation, intensifying awareness campaigns aimed at promoting traffic behavior and consolidating a culture of prevention, alongside developing ambulance and medical transport services and reducing response time, which enhances the chances of saving the injured and reducing deaths. The Ministry emphasized that these efforts come within an integrated system aimed at improving traffic safety indicators and quality of life, through enhancing prevention and raising the efficiency of accident response.

Factors that contributed to the decrease: - Deploying intelligent monitoring systems. - Improving infrastructure and implementing the Road Code. - Updating traffic legislation. - Intensifying awareness campaigns. - Developing ambulance and medical transport services and reducing response time.

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