DUBAI – Some 457,154 drivers benefited from the “Traffic Fines Settlement Initiative” launched on seventh February 2019, with the aid of the Dubai Police General Command, for no longer breaking the visitors’ law and obtained reductions of up to 25 percent on their fines, totaling 1,260,046, in return. Dubai Police said the discount is being provided to lessen the monetary burden on motorists and inspire them to adhere to traffic guidelines. The initiative, which is now in its 2d quarter, offers reductions of up to 50 percent, provided that the affected driver does not commit any visitor violations at any point during the length of the sector. Maj. Gen.
Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen, Assistant Commander-in-Chief for Operations, Dubai Police, found out and introduced that promoting a culture of traffic safety in the network will help achieve the strategic goals of the country’s visitors and patrol departments to reduce traffic injuries and resulting deaths. He made this declaration for the duration of a press conference organized today by the Security Media Department announcing the first zone results of the initiative, in the presence of Brig. Saif Mohair Al Mazrouei, Director of the Traffic Department, and several officers and media representatives.
Maj. Gen. Al Zafeen praised the initiative’s effects, which displays the willingness of drivers to comply with traffic legal guidelines and appreciate the road even as stating that the initiative has numerous social, traffic, security, and humanitarian goals, which includes keeping avenue safety and safety and lowering the monetary burdens on-site visitors violators. Brigadier Al Mazrouei stated that the effects highlighted a decline in site visitors’ injuries that ended in injuries and deaths from 1st February to 1st May, compared to the previous year.
Dubai registered 43,947 accidents throughout the initiative’s first year simultaneously while the number of visitor accidents during the same period last year amounted to 247. The overall number of deaths amounted to 20, compared to 29 in 2018, and the automobiles seized reduced with the aid of 19 percent, he said.
To mark the Year of Tolerance, Dubai Police launched in February the only-12 month’s incentive and safety scheme to praise safe driving and to encourage people to look at their speed and take more care when in the back of the wheel. The initiative, which becomes released at the start of the Year of Tolerance, will supply drivers a hundred percent bargain on fines supplying that they do no longer commit any traffic violations over the subsequent 365 days, or 75 percent over the subsequent 9 months, 50 percent over the subsequent six months, and 25 percentage over the next three months.
Traffic signs or symbols control traffic flow, warn drivers and individuals of hazards, guide and give information to drivers’ destinations, and inform drivers and civilians of roadway services. Traffic signs are handy to protect the public from accidents and give full guidance to drivers to avoid a vehicular incident that sometimes causes death. Most of the accidents of today involve vehicles and drivers who are reckless.
