31 cars impounded for risky driving in UAQ

Umm Al Quwain - Police have urged motorists to be cautious on the road, and stop performing any road stuns with their vehicles on all the emirates internal roads.

The Umm Al Quwain Police, as part of an intensive campaign across the northern emirate, has impounded 31 cars for reckless driving. 
The drivers nabbed was speeding, racing, and driving in a hazardous way that poses a grave risk to road users' safety, according to a senior police officer. 
Lt-Col Saeed Obaid Bin Aran, Director of Traffic and Patrols Department of the UAQ Police Directorate General, said some of these cars were stopped during the Eid Al Adha holiday. 
"The feast is a time of joy and happiness, but some drivers, mostly young people, carelessly insist on risking their lives and others' for nothing but fun and empty competition."
As per article No (6) of the UAE federal traffic law, a fine of Dh2,000 shall be slapped against anyone involved in risky driving or posing a risk to road users, he warned.
"Fourteen black points are also added to his traffic file, let alone a 30-day impoundment of the car involved in the violation." 
All drivers, particularly young ones, need to be cautious on the road, and stop performing any road stuns with their vehicles on all the emirates internal roads and highways, Lt-Col Bin Aran urged. 
"Such reckless stunts mostly end in gruesome accidents, serious injuries, deaths, and big financial losses, apart from hefty fines and long impoundment of the vehicle." 
Indicating, he said more traffic patrols and teams have been deployed across the emirate to better control traffic and curb road accidents and casualties. 
"All the drivers involved in performing road stunts this year have been stopped, and penalised with no tolerance." 
However, traffic accidents still represent a big concern for law- enforcement bodies in the country due to their human and financial losses, Lt-Col Bin Aran stated. 
"Observing speed limit is the first rule for road safety as most of the accidents registered so far are, in a way or another, related to speeding or exceeding speed limit." 
As per a tougher unified traffic law with higher fines and a black points system enacted in 2008 all over the UAE, erring motorists are penalised with up to 24 black points, following which they lose their driving license, Lt-Col Bin Aran said. 
"Driving callously costs erring driver Dh2,000, 12 black points, as well as the impoundment of the vehicle for 30 days. Not carrying a driving licence or using a horn in a disturbing way draws a fine of Dh100."
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