The Ministry of the Interior has warned against the gathering of victims in the area of accidents and the portrayal of the victims. This causes the accident to escalate, preventing the arrival of rescue teams, providing primary care for the injured, and causing psychological damage to the injured and their families. .
According to police reports, pedestrians and drivers caused a number of traffic accidents at the state level as a result of their gathering or stopping their vehicles in the river of the road to see details of the incidents and photographing them, which hindered the arrival of ambulances and firefighters to the accident sites.
The Ministry of the Interior pointed out that the gathering, with the aim of curiosity or photography, exposed those involved to legal accountability, calling on drivers not to gather in traffic accidents and stop vehicles to take pictures as a negative behavior that is dangerous to all.
She pointed to the amendment of the violation «not give priority and priority road for emergency vehicles or ambulance or police or official processions» contained in the law of traffic and traffic to the Federal value of 3000 dirhams with the reservation of 30 days and six points of traffic, effective July 1.
The decision is aimed at enhancing the safe environment of roads, achieving the highest levels of traffic safety, controlling road security, reducing the number of deaths resulting from traffic accidents, and achieving the target of the national agenda indicators according to the vision of the UAE government.
The Ministry stressed its keenness to enhance the safety and security of the road and to take all necessary measures to ensure that the road users will be active partners in the ministry's efforts through their responsibility and their willingness to give priority to emergency vehicles and to abide by the correct traffic behavior as they pass. While giving way to these vehicles, giving priority to them and not hindering or delaying them.
The Ministry of the Interior has recently launched civilian patrols to check for emergency vehicle and emergency vehicles, and will monitor this through smart systems, road-mounted cameras or emergency vehicles to ensure traffic safety for all, and to arrive at their desired location as quickly as possible, unhindered or delayed .
The Ministry stressed that it is necessary to listen to the emergency sirens or to see the lights of the emergency vehicles, to be responsible and contribute to the enhancement of safety and protection of life and property by giving these vehicles priority, pointing to the importance of taking the public procedures to be followed when watching vehicles emergency and official to become active partners in the service Society and contributors to saving the lives of others. We are also accustomed to the positive nature of the community, which is keen to support government actions to provide the required services.
The portrayal of traffic accidents and the dissemination and exchange of images through social media sites are criminal offenses according to article 197 bis (2) of the Penal Code, which penalizes imprisonment and fines "whoever uses a means of communication, information technology means or any other means of disseminating information Or news, even if it is true. "
The legislator also criminalized article 198 bis of the same law, "intentionally broadcasting false or malicious news, statements or rumors, or broadcasting them among people, or harming the public interest, punishable by imprisonment."
Which is punishable in accordance with Article 21 of the 2012 Law on Combating Information Technology Crimes, punishable by imprisonment and a fine of not less than 150,000 dirhams, or one of these two penalties: "Anyone who violates the privacy of a person other than in cases authorized by law , Taking, copying, copying, or publishing photographs, scenes, comments, statements or information, if true and true. "
Rejected behaviors
Abu Dhabi Police has warned against the gathering of curious people in traffic accident sites, photographing vehicles involved in accidents and casualties, and publishing images on social media websites without permission, exposing them to legal accountability.
She pointed to the occurrence of some incidents as a result of the parking of some of the drivers in the accident sites and crossing the curiosity of pedestrians roads to the accident sites, unaware of the movement of vehicles, which leads to exposure to accidents, pointing to the shortcomings of the crowd in causing traffic jams at the scene of the accident.
She stressed that the gathering of accident sites is one of the negative behaviors that are obstructing the arrival of ambulances, emergency vehicles, traffic patrols and civil defense as quickly as possible to carry out their duties in providing humanitarian assistance to the wounded and saving their lives.
And advised drivers who are standing to provide humanitarian assistance to the wounded, to follow the correct steps to stop their vehicles, and the operation of warning signs in the vehicle of the injured person, and a warning triangle behind them to alert vehicles coming in the same direction, to avoid other traffic accidents.