The mother, who was injured in a serious run-over accident that resulted in the death of her 4-year-old daughter in front of a school in Jebel Ali, will undergo surgery because of her multiple fractures, according to sources close to the family. Her daughter.
A security source told «Emirates Today» that the driver causing the accident (African) is being held pending the incident, pointing out that the traffic accident experts moved to the scene of the accident, and took over the planning and preparation of a technical report to the Traffic Prosecution, while sending school «Greenfield» The child has a letter of sympathy to the parents expressing the depth of her grief.
According to the Director of Jebel Ali Police Station, Brigadier Dr. Adel Al-Suwaidi, the accident occurred at 3:40 pm the day before at the school's external parking. As police patrols moved to the scene, the accident occurred as a result of the driver of the vehicle causing the accident on the accelerator pedal. By mistake instead of pressing the brake pedal, which quickly returned to the rear, and ran over the mother and her child and jammed between the car and a parked vehicle, resulting in the death of the child (4 years), a schoolgirl in the school in which the accident occurred in her positions, in addition to injury The mother was seriously injured and taken to NMC Hospital in Dubai.
Al-Suwaidi said that the driver's return coincided with the passage of the mother and her child at the same moment, and that the driver's accidental rush was so great that it caused damage to three other cars parked in the place.
According to the security source, Dubai Police pays great attention to the school environment. Therefore, it is keen to launch an initiative «day without accidents» to encourage drivers to commit on the first day of school, in return for giving them incentives and rewards, pointing out that the goal is to remind people of the importance of safe driving near schools Due to the nature of these areas and the difficulty of seeing children because of their small sizes.
He explained that the Public Prosecution will investigate the incident and assess the responsibility of the woman who caused it, as well as the role of a vehicle that was wrongly parked in the same place, when the car returned and the mother and her child were caught between them.
He pointed out that the Dubai Police launched the initiative «security your happiness» to protect schools with specialized patrols, as well as a team to follow up the conditions of students and provide them with the necessary protection inside and outside schools, and the initiative has been able to reduce the traffic accidents index in the vicinity of schools by 33% since its launch last year, but remains Some of the behaviors of a class of parents and drivers cause these accidents.