11/03/2015
East Chamber workshop reveal a traffic accident every minute in the Kingdom
The workshop was organized by the East Chamber yesterday Tuesday, March 10, 2015 entitled "facilitate an end to traffic accidents measures" the headquarters revealed that the kingdom accident rates estimated traffic accident every single minute.
He said Sultan al-Zahrani, secretary general of the Committee on Traffic Safety in a paper entitled "how to avoid traffic accidents," said the annual deaths in the Kingdom beyond the 7000 situation with up serious injuries resulting from traffic accidents by about 39 000 injured, pointing out that the Kingdom occupies a location ahead of the countries of the world inthe total of deaths per 100 000 people, where up to 21 deaths, while a study issued estimated for the King Abdul Aziz City the number of deaths exceeding 29 cases, indicating that the Commission on traffic safety , the Chamber conducted a thorough study showed that the economic losses caused by traffic accidents in the region of 3billion riyals annually.
Firas Said marketing director and relations with the "Najem" in a paper entitled "mechanism end accidents procedures with the relevant authorities," said the company aims to support the traffic directly minor accidents costing less than 5000 riyals, pointing out that 70% of traffic accidentswhich is a simple Kingdom, adding that the company offers reception claims service in accidents in remote cities and which do not exist in the insurance companies, so send claims electronically in order to shortcut time to get to the claims of the owners of the documents, saying that the company is seeking to have this service on allfuture cities, adding that the total new documents estimated about 20 - 25 000 a day while the number ranges 400-500 thousand documents per month.
He said the major cities account for 60% - 65% of the incidents carried out by "star", adding that the company was able to improve access to accidents time of between 21-60 minutes in 2014 compared to 1.5 to 3 hours in 2009, a referenceto pursue the company's data analysis and policy knowledge peak times, which are 8:00 - 5 pm Unlike the month of Ramadan (10-12 pm.
As explained in favor of Anzi, Regional Director, Eastern Province for an insurance company in a paper entitled "The role of insurance companies in the end the litigation action" that there is a responsibility on the owner of the document to obtain financial benefits and which notify the competent authorities for the loss, as well as provide all the required documents and dealing credibilitywith the incident without hiding some important information.
He noted that committed to pay the financial claims of insurance companies within 15 days from the date of receipt of complete documents claim, and that the companies are obliged to provide the holder to receive the claim within seven days of receipt.
He said that the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency established a committee to disputes to resort to in the absence of agreement on the amounts or not the conviction of the other party as a result of the estimated amount of traffic accident.
