An online course that promotes safe driving and the use of seat belts is being added to college curriculums Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) institutes have included the e-course in their curriculums as part of the Stay Alert, Stay Alive campaign, supported by the Roads and Transport Authority in Dubai. More than 18,000 Emirati students …
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The victims of road accidents worldwide will be publicly mourned tomorrow as governments work to reduce the number of crashes. The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims takes place on the third Sunday of November each year. Road safety and transport experts have suggested the UAE, which aims to have no road deaths …
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Abu Dhabi Municipality is to concentrate on improved safety for schools and pedestrians across the emirate. “We identify measures to mitigate high risks and reduce fatal and serious injuries on the roads,” said a spokesman from the infrastructure and assets division. “Based on the Department of Transport and the police reports, we prepared a design …
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Four years after three children died in an accident that triggered The National’s Road to Safety campaign, the UAE’s roads are considerably safer, experts say. Improved infrastructure, road design and safety standards, enforcement, traffic control and incident response, and pedestrian management have all been factors. “Authorities here are much more conscious of designing roads and …
The licensing agency at Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority will start distributing warning stickers to be placed on the windscreen of cars driven by newly licensed drivers, starting in the last quarter of the year. Sultan Al Marzouqi, director of the drivers’ licensing department at the agency, said in Al Itthad, the Arabic-language sister newspaper …
Recently qualified drivers can now put a sticker on their car windows warning other motorists that they have only just passed their test. The Roads and Transport Authority has devised a series of “New Driver” stickers that will be sold to a trainee once he or she obtains their driving license. “The idea of placing …
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A Dubai driver stopped by police last week had racked up more than Dh100,000 in fines. The driver was one of 23 pulled over as part of a campaign against reckless driving. He had accumulated Dh104,990 worth of fines. Maj Gen Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen, the head of traffic in Dubai, has warned reckless drivers …
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Drivers who have accumulated fines of more than Dh3,000 can pay in installments if their vehicle is registered in the emirate. The balance must be paid in no more than 12 installments, which must be made within a year of the fines being issued. The first payment must cover 30 per cent of the amount …
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Traffic and licensing departments across the UAE will be linked for the first time by new software that allows vehicle owners to go to any branch in the country to pay fines, renew licenses, get ownership certificates and more. Previously, drivers had to visit branches in the emirate where their vehicle was first registered. The …
A driver owes more than Dh134,000 in traffic fines for 218 offences, police say. The Emirati woman is one of 10 motorists who together have accumulated a total of more than Dh1 million in fines. Police released the figures while announcing measures to confiscate the vehicles of those owing more than Dh40,000, currently 296 motorists. …