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. …
Motorists queued at the Sharjah Traffic Department and car registration office yesterday as they sought to take advantage of a 50 per cent discount on all fines from traffic offences Last year’s traffic offenders in Sharjah and Ajman were offered the discount if payment was made from January until the end of April. The discounts …
Shoppers can now pay their traffic fines while they browse the stores with the opening of a new police station at Sahara Mall. The station, which will also offer immigration and other police services, is the first of its kind for the emirate, said Brig Abdullah Mubarak Al Dukhan, the deputy director general of Sharjah …
Motorists in Sharjah will be fined Dh200 and have 3 black points added to their licence if they reverse park their cars. According to police, the rear of a car parked in a bay must be facing out to the road otherwise the owner will be fined. “Drivers have to park their vehicles in the …
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