DUBAI – Some 457,154 drivers benefitted 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 visitor’s 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’s now in its 2d quarter, offers reductions of up to 50 percent, offering that affected driving force does now not dedicate any visitor violations at some point of that last length of the sector, Maj. Gen.
Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen, Assistant Commander-in-Chief for Operation, Dubai Police, found out and introduced that selling a culture of traffic safety in the network will assist reap the strategic desires of the country’s visitors and patrol departments to lessen traffic injuries and resulting deaths. He made this declaration for the duration of a press convention organized today by using the Security Media Department announcing the first zone results of the initiative, inside the presence of Brig. Saif Mohair Al Mazrouei, Director of 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 a closing year.
Dubai registered 43,947 accidents throughout the initiative’s first area simultaneously as the variety of visitor accidents all through the same period last year amounted to forty-eight,247. The overall number of deaths amounted to 20, compared to 29 in 2018, and the automobiles seized reduced with the aid of 19 percentage, he introduced.
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 the drivers and individuals of hazards, guide and give information to the drivers’ destination, 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 that are reckless.
