ABU DHABI – Traffic experts have said that high speeding, not fastening and wearing seat belts, lack of child restraints and passing red lights were among the serious road safety problems in the UAE last year. “Abu Dhabi has seen a decrease in fatal crashes, which in itself is a significant stride,” said Glenn Havinoviski, …
ABU DHABI – A series of serious steps and initiatives to decrease the number of road deaths and accidents over the past years have been praised by road safety experts. Along with that, campaigns have included raising awareness about drink driving, speeding, pedestrian and cyclist safety, and reckless driving. “The issue of traffic safety is …
It has been looming in the Emirate of Sharjah that road signs there are up in the air for a new face to help drivers and road users make their journeys more manageable, faster and shorter. Accordingly, the Traffic Engineering Department of Sharjah Department of Public Works (DPW) hit the ground running a comprehensive traffic …
DUBAI – Taxi regulators executed a quick change on a ruling that banned passengers from sharing a taxi to more than one destination. Taxi drivers may now make multiple drop-offs and stops on the same route provided they do not restart the meter at each stop, and the last passenger to get out of the …
DUBAI – Taxis in the Emirate of Dubai are being installed with sensors that give the green light to the meters to operate automatically and beyond one’s control. The Roads and Transport Authority’s (RTA) Dubai Taxi Corporation (DTC) has taken its first step in fixing in the meter devices and sensors in its cab vehicles …
It goes without saying that video cameras in taxis are helping to use time and cut costs associated with filing an insurance claim in a number of countries including Australia, Singapore and the United States but the trend is unlikely to take off in the UAE despite the benefits. In Singapore, taxi drivers are increasingly …
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ABU DHABI – Reviewing the latest traffic statistics, it has been shown that skipping a red light got things rolling to 11 per cent among the primary causes of traffic accidents in the Capital Emirate of Abu Dhabi during the first quarter of 2013. On account of that, the traffic police called for the motorists …
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ABU DHABI – The Abu Dhabi Police Traffic and Patrols Directorate of Police Forty has recently pointed out that a number of new speed radars will be fixed up and become in the working order operated on eight express roads in the Capital Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the upcoming weeks. In addition, Captain Ahmed …
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Every driver who has to drive to his work every morning is haunted with one terrible possibility. What could be more depressing for any driver than getting into his in the morning or on a rainy night, turning on the key, and getting shocked that nothing happened! In such bad case scenarios, a jump-start cable …
The UAE government is continually working on providing better living standards to its people and all the foreign residents in the country. Abu Dhabi Police, as it is the capital police, is has set up many strategic plans that aim at improving the efficiency of its services. One of the latest services that ADP has …