KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has expressed concern over the high number of road accident fatalities involving youths.

Zahid said the situation called for urgent and coordinated intervention from youth groups, the government, and the private sector.

"On average, 6,000 people die in road accidents each year. Ninety per cent of those who perish are youths," he said at the closing ceremony of the Federal Territories-level 2025 National Youth Day celebration here last night.

Zahid, who also chairs the Cabinet Committee on Road Safety and Congestion, illustrated the scale of the tragedy by comparing it to six football fields filled with graves, each field representing 1,000 lives lost.