Dubai: Drivers in the emirates now need to be more careful about wearing seat belts, not using mobile phone while driving as advanced security cameras will catch offenders of the traffic laws in the country.
Colonel Saif Al Mazroui said the new cameras, deployed in and around the city, caught nearly 51,891 speed, seat belt and mobile phone offences in about 11 months.
He added that the offences also include wrong overtaking, driving in hard shoulder areas and the absence of registration number plates.
“Drivers think that the cameras we have installed recently target only speedsters but they actually can detect more than a speed offence in both directions,” Arabic daily Emarat Al Youm quoted Mazroui as saying. He said the new cameras, dubbed ‘Al Burj’ (tower), can also detect offending trucks and cars which come at close distance behind other vehicles.
“Since the beginning of this year, these cameras have recorded 21,374 hard shoulder offences.
“These are very serious offences.
“The cameras can also catch drivers who go at high speed at junctions even if the lights are green,” Mazroui said.
He further says 20,780 red light offences have also been recorded in the first 11 months of 2015 while there were 6,512 offences by heavy duty trucks changing lanes.
According to Mazroui, at least 52 cameras have been recently installed on Sheikh Zayed Rd while 31 new cameras have been deployed at various junctions.
“We are focusing on Sheikh Zayed Rd given its heavy traffic nature and the high accident rate.
“In the first nine months of this year, these accidents killed 122 people compared with 131 in the same period of last year,” he said.
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