Four people were killed and two injured when a truck collided with a bus in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s traffic authorities have said.
The accident, which occurred on a road linking Al Qassim in central Saudi Arabia with the western city of Medina also injured two other persons.
The traffic authorities added that they were completing legal procedures without giving further details.
In another accident, a motorist was injured on Wednesday after his car flipped over in south-western Saudi Arabia.
The accident happened in the Sultana town, around 190 kilometres from Najran.
Teams from the Saudi Red Crescent Authority handled the crash and used an air ambulance to transport the wounded person to the King Khalid Hospital in Najran, according to the Saudi news agency SPA.
Last week, a pile-up involving 20 vehicles in Riyadh left one person dead and 10 others injured.
Civil defence personnel rescued another person who had been trapped in a car due to the accident, the cause of which was not specified.
Amid stepped-up efforts to reduce road crashes including stringent penalties against offenders, statistics showed a 2.5 per cent decrease in serious traffic accidents in the kingdom last year compared to 2022.
Likewise, a 2.9 per cent drop was seen in deaths resulting from traffic accidents compared to the previous year.
The Saudi Interior Ministry has recently said an enhanced traffic safety system has helped halved road fatalities. The ministry added that such deaths in the kingdom dropped from 28.8 cases per 100,00 people in 2016 to about 13 cases last year.
The number of registered and roadworthy vehicles in Saudi Arabia until the end of 2023 reached 15.1 million, up 6.2 per cent against the previous year, according to government figures.
The length of the road network in the kingdom totalled 316,900km in 2023, an increase of 2.2 per centagainst the previous year.
