Traffic accidents

4644 traffic accidents were registered in 2009 and resulted in 513 deaths and 6508 injuries. In 2010, the number decreased to 4583, but human casualties rose to 549 deaths and 6517 injuries. The accidents dropped further to 4447 in 2011 with 508 dead and 6040 injured.

This year, 2323 accidents have been recorded so far (end of October), resulting in the death of 351 people and the injury of 3133.

Samples of accidents

The traffic accidents recorded in Lebanon between 2011-2012 resulted in atrocious physical and human damage. In what follows are some of those accidents:

• January 23, 2011: Father Nahed Tadros, his wife Nidal, and their son Nader were killed when their car drifted on Tabarja – Casino du Liban highway and fell into the valley. Their youngest son survived but suffered from injuries.
• April 29, 2011: A horrific car accident in Qalamoun, North Lebanon, killed three young men and left a fourth with a brain concussion. The accident took place when the vehicle in which the men were traveling smashed into the rear of a truck.
• April 6, 2012: An accident near the Kuwaiti embassy resulted in the death of a woman and her son and injuring 9 others.
• April 10, 2012: Two were killed in a road accident in Chtoura, while a truck was overtaking two cars at a high speed.
• June 10, 2012: Three people were killed in a car accident on the Babiliya-Ansar road at 3 am. The three fatalities were identified as the driver’s wife, Fatima Musa Assi, her mother and her son.
• September 8, 2012: A speeding Infiniti car drifted into the western route on the road from Carantina towards Dawra and smashed into two cars, claiming the lives of two brothers Robert and George Maalouf and injuring two others.
• November 17, 2012: Three youths were killed in an accident on the road to the airport. One of the cars involved in the accident drifted into the second lane, breaking into tiny pieces due to its high speed.
• November 19, 2012: A Syrian man and his four daughters were run over by a vehicle as they tried to cross the Naameh highway linking Beirut to Sidon.
• November 29, 2012: Lebanese citizen Halim Gharib and a Syrian national were killed when the former’s Peugeot crashed into the latter’s mini-truck carrying potatoes on Kab Elias main road.
• November 30, 2012: Two Lebanese soldiers aged 28 and 29 were killed in a horrific car accident in Shtoura roundabout at 4 am. The soldiers’ Honda car rammed into a tree as they were heading for Beirut, killing them instantly.
• December 5, 2012: Teacher Habib Khoury was killed in a car accident when his car collided with a “Van” in the town of Sheikh Mohammad.