From the front page of today’s The National:
More than 3,000 children and teenagers were the victims of accidents on the streets of the capital in the past five years, police figures show, prompting renewed appeals for better protection for young people travelling in vehicles and playing on streets.
The figures reveal that 3,477 people under the age of 17 were involved in road crashes between 2004 and 2008, making the age group the second-most likely to be caught up in accidents in Abu Dhabi. The most likely to be involved were people aged 17 to 40.
The figures are horrifying, and they’ve been increasingly in the news recently as a result of the fallout from the deaths of children being dropped off by their school buses.
A few things:
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