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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kuwait

ABSTRACT

This paper describes a study of the traffic and accident data in Kuwait to assess the general accident situation in the country. The study uses published data over an 11-year period to examine the changes over time in the number of vehicles per person, and of fatal and non-fatal injuries per person and per vehicle. It was found that the fatal and non-fatal injury rates per vehicle were decreasing with time. A relationship between fatalities vehicles and population is derived and shows that the tendency found by Smeed for fatalities per vehicle to decrease with increasing car ownership is also evident in Kuwait.