Abu Dhabi Police have obliged motorists to stand fully five meters away in both directions when the school bus 'stop' is opened when students come and go, warning that violating these instructions, the owners were subjected to a traffic violation of 1000 dirhams and 10 traffic points. Coming soon to install smart cameras in buses to monitor offenders.
Brigadier Salim Abdullah Al Dhaheri, Deputy Director of Traffic and Patrols Department at Abu Dhabi Police, said that the mandatory procedure of stopping vehicles when opening the arm of school buses in both directions, in front of and behind the bus, is aimed at maintaining the safety of students and protecting our children from Traffic accidents, as well as enhancing road safety and security, and spreading reassurance to road users.
He added that there is a legal responsibility on all drivers of school buses, the need to open the arm «stop», when stopping on the road to download students, to alert drivers of vehicles, but if they do not comply, they are violated.
Al-Dhaheri stressed that the drivers of the vehicles may not have a traffic violation in the event that the vehicle is not stopped because the bus driver did not open the arm of the stop, calling on the road users to drive safely and not to exceed the speed on the roads surrounding the schools.
In a related context, the Abu Dhabi Police has developed a system to control the arm of the «stop», to maintain the safety of students and make roads safer.
The Abu Dhabi Police have developed the idea of an intelligent control system to control overstayers in school buses, using the latest technology and the ability to control the offending vehicles by not stopping when the arm of the stop is opened when students climb and disembark.
The system works on cameras based on artificial intelligence technology installed in school buses, which identify the offending vehicle when approaching less than five meters and non-stop, to ensure the rise or descent of students.
Mechanism of using the arm «Stand»
Abu Dhabi Police explained the mechanism of using the side “stop” arm when students climbed and disembarked from the bus, and the parking situations for vehicles when a stop sign was operated on school buses. On single roads, all vehicles traveling in both directions should be stopped at a distance of not less than five meters, while in dual roads, all vehicles traveling in the direction of the vehicle should be stopped at least five meters.