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 Abdullah Al Muhairi, the Head of Traffic Safety Section at the Traffic Engineering and Safety Department in the Traffic and Patrols Directorate of the Abu Dhabi Police, has told the local media indicating that this step comes in framework of the Directorate’s comprehensive strategy to straighten up the traffic safety represented by the priority of making roads safer, and support efforts to cut back all causes that lead to a number of serious accidents and the mortalities and injuries resulting from over speeding in 2012 by 21%, “road safety is everybody’s responsibility,” and above all to make remarkable strides in traffic, reduce the resulting human, economic, and social losses in the Emirate in general.
Al Muhairi also said the ultimate aim of operating the new radars is to primarily keep the drivers safe and reinforce compliance with traffic laws. This, in turn, leads to reducing speeds that represent a great danger on motorists and road users as well, in case the driver loses control of the vehicle.
Furthermore, Al Muhairi also made sure that the roads that were equipped with the new speed radars cover the trucks road in Mussafah and the trucks road from Al Maqtaa Bridge to Mojamaa Al Josoor-Abu Dhabi-Al Ain – Umm Al Nasr-Al Raha Beach Road- Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid street-Abu Dhabi International Airport-Sweihan Road. (Al Ajban, Al Gweifat, Abu Dhabi-Dubai, Abu Dhabi-Al Ain, Yas-Al Saadiyat, Al Mafraq-Al Shahama, Al Raha Beach and Al Shahinat Truck Road).
This plan is principally based on five main elements: architecture, awareness, control, assessment and quick response. These five points are used to set speed limits on all roads in the capital and to spread out awareness and control programs.
These join the 10 new cameras that were fitted to traffic lights in the capital at the recent weeks, bringing the number of equipped junctions to 36. Those devices used state of the art infrared, no-flash technology to capture offences and law violations.
He also said that these radars will be added to the 40 radars that were installed and operated on a number of roads in Abu Dhabi last November 2013, bringing the number of new radars in two months to 80.
Conclusively, Al Muhairi called for the drivers and the others to stick to the laws and the limits, to support Abu Dhabi’s view to achieve zero road fatalities by 2030.
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