A notable rise in aggressive driving habits during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to a surge in the proportion of serious injuries and deaths, has prompted researchers to call for urgent policy interventions.
This is amongst the key findings of a new study titled ‘A Comprehensive Assessment of Before-During-After Impacts of Covid-19 Pandemic on Road Crashes’ by Nadin Hossam and Uneb Gazder from the University of Bahrain and Abdallah Al Faoury from the Bahrain Defence Force, which aims to highlight behavioural shifts among drivers between 2015 and 2023 .