Causing the death of a person in a traffic accident

"Youssef" is a prisoner of "the legal blood money"... and his family has no breadwinner

(Youssef - Egyptian - 20 years old), caused a traffic accident while on his way to the Habshan region, on December 27, 2020, and the accident resulted in the death of an (Asian) person and the injury of another, and the police arrested him, and since that date he has been behind the bars of the institution Punitive and Correctional Services in Abu Dhabi, for his inability to pay the value of the legal blood money, which amounts to 200,000 dirhams, appealing to good people and people of merciful hearts to help him pay the value of the legal blood money, so that he can come out to life again.

(Youssef) told the story of his suffering, to "Emirates Today", saying: "He works (mechanic) in a general contracting company in Abu Dhabi with a salary of 1500 dirhams per month, and one day he was heading to the Habshan area to accomplish an important matter, and he was driving the company vehicle in which he works. He did not know at the time that the vehicle had expired ownership and insurance, and while walking on the road he tried to stop the vehicle on the side of the road, and there were also parked vehicles on the side of the road, and he tried to stop the vehicle behind it, but he was surprised by a technical defect in the brakes, which led to his confusion and could not act.”

He continued, "He tried to stop the vehicle in all ways, but he collided with the vehicle that was parked on the side of the road, and ran over a person of Asian nationality, and injured another person," noting that he got out of the vehicle in a daze, not knowing what to do, and within minutes the police cars came. It was found that the first person died on the spot, and the second person sustained severe injuries.

He indicated that he was imprisoned at the end of December 2020, in connection with the case of legal blood money of 200,000 dirhams, and has been languishing throughout the past period behind prison bars in the Punitive and Correctional Institution in Abu Dhabi, and he does not know how to get out of this predicament, as the verdict was issued against him for imprisonment until Pay the blood money to the heirs of the deceased, and he could not manage even a small part of the amount, especially since his salary is modest and the capabilities of his family in his town are very limited, and he came to the state to help his family, and currently he does not know how to act under the harsh conditions he is going through.

He stressed that since entering prison, his family in his town has lost its only breadwinner, and currently he has no choice but to pray to God to mock him with compassionate hearts and good people to help him pay 200 thousand dirhams, the value of the required blood money, so that he can go out to life and support his family, which has been living in harsh conditions since entering prison. At the end of December 2020.

• (Youssef) drove the company's vehicle without knowing that it had expired ownership and insurance.