MANAMA, 15 June 2004 — Three Saudis were injured, two of them seriously when their car collided head-on with a BMW driven by a Bahraini near the Mina Salman Port in Manama City late Sunday night.
Sultan Mohammed, aged 25, and Hani Al-Hasawi, aged 25, both suffered serious injuries.
Both were rushed to Salmanyia Medical Complex and admitted to the intensive care unit. Their condition was described as critical. Ahmed Mohammed Aqeel, 21, who was in the same Honda Civic suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Two other Saudis — Saeed Al-Zahraan, 25, and his cousin Obaied, 26 — escaped uninjured after the two other cars rammed their Chevrolet Lumina.
“We helped the driver of the BMW out of the car and asked him to stay on the side of the road while help arrives,” Saeed told Arab News on the scene.
“He was bleeding from the chin and hands.” But the man fled while the two were assisting the other Saudis in the second car. Saeed and his cousin had just arrived in Bahrain when the accident occurred at around 11.15 p.m.
Sources said police later caught the fugitive driver.
