A Saudi woman who defied a driving ban in the kingdom was injured and her companion killed when their car overturned in the northern Hael province, a police spokesman said on Monday.
“One woman was immediately killed and her companion who was driving the car was hospitalised after she suffered several injuries” when their four-wheel-drive vehicle overturned late on Saturday, said police spokesman Abdulaziz al-Zunaidi.
Ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive.
However, they get behind the wheel in desert regions away from the capital.
There have been several incidents reported in recent years of women being killed in accidents while driving despite the ban, one of a host of restrictions imposed on women in the kingdom.
In November 2010, a Saudi who defied the driving ban was killed along with three of her 10 female passengers when her car overturned in a crash.
Categories: Asia, Saudi Arabia, Women Rights
Certainly due to driving ban on women they don’t get proper training and experience which men get. So its not these women’s fault that they get involved in such accidents and get killed.
Exactly! And the Saudis should not use this as an excuse to further impose the ban.
Actually many Saudi ladies learned driving while studying or travelling abroad. Not all of them of course, but a sizable number.
Saudi kingdom has taken measures to protect the public from female drivers. But some unruly women break the law and put the public in danger. Please leave the driving to men! vehicles were designed by men, with male logic, for the men to use.
Without the ban, women in Saudi can learn to drive with more freedom and learn better. This may decrease the amount of accidents that they cause.
This sounds really devastating, I hope Saudi Arabians learn from this awful incident.