DUBAI 29 April 2018: Dubai Police is cracking down on jaywalkers and on drivers who transport non-permitted items in vehicles – so you’d better be careful.
Colonel Juma Salem bin Suwaidan, Acting Director General of Traffic Department, stressed the keenness of Dubai Police to maintain the safety of drivers and road users from traffic accidents and losses.
He explained that a number of trucks and buses [of all kinds] have been found violating the laws and regulations and conditions of safe driving on the road. “These laws were created to reduce traffic accidents”.
As a result of these violations, many traffic accidents have caused the death of many road users, and damaged many properties.
The General Directorate of Traffic Police has intensified monitoring of dangerous violations.
He pointed out that the campaigns resulted in the seizure of large numbers of buses and trucks, which posed a serious danger to the lives of passengers, and almost led to serious accidents.
Violations include buses carrying iron and gas and oxygen pipes, trucks with damaged or expired tires, as well as overloading of passengers by minibuses, as well as pedestrians crossing in non-transit areas.
He pointed out that these campaigns resulted in the registration of:
- 20,459 violations of crossing of the road from other than the places designated for transit
- 8858 violations of mass transport vehicles
- 19,987 dangerous traffic violations.
Colonel Suwaidan stressed that the General Directorate of Traffic is taking deterrent measures against drivers of vehicles that do not abide by the rules of traffic and endanger their lives and the lives of road users, stressing that the real safety lies in following the rules of traffic and not committing anything that contravenes the law.
