Variables | Severity of RTIs (%) | Total number of incidents | ||||
No injury (n=6790) | Mild (n=13 346) | Moderate (n=9758) | Severe (n=2226) | Fatal (n=3665) | ||
All | 19.0 | 37.3 | 27.3 | 6.2 | 10.2 | 35 785 |
Driver’s gender | ||||||
Male | 19.9 | 35.7 | 27.0 | 6.5 | 10.9 | 31 763 |
Female | 11.9 | 49.3 | 29.6 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 4022 |
Driver’s age (years) | ||||||
<20 | 13.9 | 37.4 | 28.2 | 8.2 | 12.3 | 2217 |
20–24 | 17.2 | 39.3 | 27.2 | 5.5 | 10.8 | 8631 |
25–29 | 19.5 | 36.8 | 28.0 | 6.7 | 9.0 | 8983 |
30–34 | 19.8 | 37.3 | 28.0 | 6.4 | 8.5 | 5848 |
35–39 | 19.5 | 35.5 | 27.7 | 6.4 | 10.9 | 3605 |
40–44 | 21.1 | 35.7 | 26.7 | 5.8 | 10.7 | 2379 |
45–49 | 21.9 | 35.5 | 23.9 | 5.1 | 13.6 | 1535 |
50+ | 21.0 | 37.3 | 24.7 | 5.7 | 11.3 | 2587 |
Cause of crash | ||||||
Overspeeding | 19.9 | 34.0 | 26.5 | 6.9 | 12.7 | 19 757 |
Negligence | 16.3 | 41.8 | 28.9 | 5.7 | 7.3 | 5567 |
Fatigue, wrong manoeuvre | 14.7 | 44.3 | 29.6 | 5.5 | 5.9 | 8050 |
Alcohol | 55.8 | 21.4 | 15.8 | 2.8 | 4.2 | 720 |
Non-human factor | 21.9 | 34.8 | 24.0 | 4.5 | 14.8 | 1691 |
Type of road | ||||||
One-way | 20.6 | 37.7 | 26.0 | 5.7 | 10.0 | 11 270 |
Two-way | 18.2 | 37.1 | 27.9 | 6.5 | 10.3 | 24 515 |
No. of vehicles involved | ||||||
Single | 24.3 | 30.7 | 26.7 | 6.6 | 11.7 | 19 531 |
Multiple | 12.6 | 45.3 | 27.8 | 5.8 | 8.5 | 16 254 |
Type of vehicle | ||||||
Saloon | 19.3 | 39.7 | 26.4 | 5.7 | 8.9 | 22 761 |
Four-wheel | 19.1 | 34.5 | 26.6 | 6.4 | 13.4 | 4239 |
Pickup | 18.8 | 34.0 | 29.1 | 6.8 | 11.3 | 3813 |
Bus | 13.5 | 35.6 | 32.2 | 6.3 | 12.4 | 872 |
Heavy vehicle | 18.1 | 30.5 | 30.3 | 8.3 | 12.8 | 4100 |
Day of the crash | ||||||
Weekday | 19.2 | 37.7 | 27.2 | 6.2 | 9.7 | 25 517 |
Weekend | 18.5 | 36.3 | 27.2 | 6.3 | 11.7 | 10 268 |
Month of the crash | ||||||
January–March | 18.6 | 38.1 | 27.7 | 6.2 | 9.4 | 9400 |
April–June | 20.5 | 36.8 | 27.1 | 6.1 | 9.5 | 9744 |
July–September | 18.0 | 36.9 | 27.3 | 6.5 | 11.3 | 8958 |
October–December | 18.6 | 37.4 | 26.9 | 6.2 | 10.9 | 7683 |
Year of the crash | ||||||
2010 | 26.0 | 33.3 | 25.3 | 6.1 | 9.3 | 7366 |
2011 | 17.7 | 37.1 | 27.3 | 7.1 | 10.8 | 7561 |
2012 | 18.3 | 39.4 | 26.1 | 5.4 | 10.8 | 8054 |
2013 | 18.6 | 38.70.000 | 27.2 | 5.8 | 9.7 | 7657 |
2014 | 12.3 | 37.9 | 31.8 | 7.2 | 10.8 | 5147 |
Driver’s nationality | ||||||
Oman | 18.2 | 38.1 | 27.6 | 6.2 | 9.9 | 29 292 |
India | 25.7 | 35.1 | 24.1 | 5.6 | 9.5 | 2357 |
Bangladesh | 12.4 | 31.3 | 31.8 | 9.5 | 15.0 | 814 |
Pakistan | 23.2 | 31.6 | 25.0 | 6.8 | 13.4 | 1735 |
Arab | 21.5 | 34.0 | 22.9 | 6.2 | 15.4 | 1021 |
Other | 24.2 | 38.7 | 26.0 | 4.2 | 6.9 | 566 |
Governorate | ||||||
Muscat | 23.0 | 42.1 | 26.4 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 12 491 |
Musandam | 26.7 | 35.5 | 25.2 | 8.6 | 4.0 | 546 |
Dhofar | 3.5 | 14.3 | 36.4 | 13.4 | 32.4 | 945 |
Dakhliya | 17.4 | 39.9 | 26.2 | 6.4 | 10.1 | 5275 |
Sharqia | 19.9 | 38.5 | 28.2 | 5.7 | 7.7 | 6739 |
Batina | 12.9 | 28.0 | 30.1 | 10.0 | 19.0 | 5578 |
Dhahira | 19.8 | 37.9 | 24.1 | 6.9 | 11.3 | 3729 |
Wusta | 5.8 | 16.8 | 25.9 | 7.3 | 44.2 | 482 |
n is the number of registered incidents; row percentage sums to 100%.
RTI, road traffic injury.