60% fewer deaths on Saudi roads

Before

For decades, Saudi Arabia had among the highest road-traffic mortality rates in the G20. Almost every Saudi family knew of a death or serious injury caused by a road accident — disproportionately affecting young men and breadwinners. Traffic fatalities were one of the single largest drivers of lost healthy life-years in the Kingdom.

Initiative

Multi-agency, multi-year transformation: the Saher automated traffic enforcement system (cameras and dynamic penalties), seatbelt and child-seat laws enforced rigorously, a national driver-licensing reform, urban speed-limit redesigns, better road engineering, women's driving rights (often a stabilizing influence in households), and joint public-health campaigns from the Ministry of Health.

Outcome

The Ministry of Health reports a more than 60% decrease in traffic accident fatalities since 2016, and a similar drop in serious road injuries. The Vision 2030 Annual Report 2025 confirms road safety as one of the most successful health-outcome reforms of the program.

For citizens

Fewer Saudi families lose a son, a husband, a daughter on the road. In a country where extended families are tightly knit, the cumulative grief avoided is enormous — and almost invisible in headline statistics because the deaths simply do not happen.