Before the beginning of 2014, many traffic safety experts have called for motorists and road users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to carry out timely inspections on their vehicles’ tires and brakes. At this account, experts indicated the contributing factors to stopping distance speed are related to condition of brakes and tires, and road …
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Guillaume Cillié, a 27-year-old South African citizen and a quantity surveyor, has highly criticized motorists communing between Dubai and Abu Dhabi as a matter of fact he was daily making around 250 kilometers trip for three month long. “Nobody is keeping a safe following distance. A driver is travelling on the fast lane when suddenly …
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“This was basically one of the very first impressions I got when I first arrived in Dubai.” Recalling back a serious and reckless incident took place with him thirteen years ago, Thomas Edelmann, an Austrian citizen and founder of roadsafetyuae.com, made his decision to dedicate more of his time for road safety. “We were sitting …
In accordance with a study released from Dubai Police, traffic accidents including more than one car caused deaths over the past 11 months. The study unveils horrific numbers of 95 deaths and 1,710 injuries from 2,124 vehicle smashes; whereas the second highest number of deaths were pedestrians being hit by vehicles, with 40 killed and …
Nure Alam, a forty-year-old Bengali taxi driver working for Al Ghazal Taxi, has found AED 88.500 in cash in his cab. One afternoon, Mr Alam took a Somali citizen from Sofitel Hotel in Abu Dhabi and dropped him at the Millennium Hotel on Khalifa Street. The fare was AED 4.50 and the man gave him …
Coping with the latest vogues and new things in terms of transportation and traffic, Abu Dhabi’s Taxi Media is up to launch a new system in order to keep more in touch with the passengers. The system is based on having interactive touchscreens with advertisements and entertainment in every taxi in the emirate. As Taxi …
Some other weeks left to bring the three-year-roadwork in Jumeirah Lake Towers to a conclusion and relieve thousands of motorists and residents who were thinking to move to other places in the city from great traffic congestion. Commenting on this crisis, Ahmed bin Sulayem, the executive chairman of Dubai Multi Commodities Centre Authority (DMCC), called …
Over three years and more of road widening, constructing bridges and fixing up traffic light systems in Jumeirah Lake Towers (JLT) following what were witnessed of negative impacts on thousands of people staying in infinite traffic lines at the peak times have become something over and done. Comments: *A Scottish citizen lived in JLT for …
According to Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed bin Darwish, Director of Sharjah Police Patrol, pointed out that the overall traffic accidents occurred in 2013 reached 223, in which most of the cases were children who run over by their parents and others. “We are urging parents or people reversing their car to cross check road emptiness before …
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As reported by a new study, roughly 39 million traffic offences were perpetrated in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over six from years, between 2007 and 2012. Major Rashid Al Fardan, Head of Traffic survey at Sharjah Police, pointed out that this study displayed contentious behaviors were the key causes of accidents. For instance; tailgating, …
