Saudi daily Al Riyadh on Monday published a picture of four of the victims involved in a fatal car crash on Saturday, saying that it was a selfie they took just before the crash.
The horrific accident between two vehicles on the Old Coast Highway in western Saudi Arabia killed 6 people when two cars collided head-on.
On Sunday, two Saudi young women were killed and nine others injured a separate car accident. The accident happened when the rear tyre burst, causing the vehicle transporting the university students to overturn. The driver was also injured and taken for treatment.
One of the injured students is in a critical condition, Bisha University posted on its website.
Saudi authorities have engaged in efforts to curb growing numbers of deadly traffic accidents.
Official statistics indicate that a car accident happens every second and 17 people are killed in crashes every day on average in the kingdom.
Around 25 per cent of the accident-related deaths happened in the region of Makkah in the western part of the country.
Makkah also tops the list in injuries with 27 per cent of the country's tally.
The capital Riyadh leads in the number of accidents with 28 per cent.
Campaigns by the authorities to bring order to chaotic driving and boost a more positive traffic culture have often been resisted by unruly and speeding drivers, prompting the installation of rigorous monitoring systems with traffic cameras on highways to check speed and at the traffic lights in major cities to record red light jumping.
The authorities plan to expand Saher, the monitoring cameras system, to all regions of the kingdom by 2018.
By Habib Toumi
