Parents demanded to intensify the punishment of parents who allow their children to drive without a license, go to school, perform demonstration movements to deter them, and maintain public safety in front of schools.
The Director of Traffic and Patrols Department at the Ras Al Khaimah Police, Brigadier Ahmed Al-Deaf Al Naqbi, revealed to Emirates Today that the Department is in the process of carrying out campaigns within the next week to seize vehicles driven by students who do not have a driving license and take legal action against violators.
Parents of students demanded the Traffic and Patrols Department to put cameras in front of public and private schools, and link them to the operating room to catch students who drive their parents' vehicles without obtaining a driver's license, pointing out that allowing some parents to go to school with their vehicles is an encouragement to violate the law. Their lives and others are at risk.
They pointed to the need to punish the offending student, and tighten the penalties on the owner of the vehicle, pointing out that the lack of attention of the parents of the consequences of their children driving their vehicles without a license, and review them in front of schools, may lead to serious traffic accidents.
They added that leniency towards unlicensed driving of children may encourage other students to take the same unlawful behavior.
Traffic campaigns
The Executive Director of the «Association» and traffic expert, Jamal Al-Amiri, it is important to carry out traffic campaigns throughout the year, to control drivers who do not have a driver's license, or underage to drive vehicles as a precaution, and not limited to the beginning of the new school year He pointed out that the campaigns give a sense to the public of citizens and residents of the existence of a traffic authority to control the road throughout the year, which limits the commission of traffic violations.
Al Ameri explained that the Traffic Law and its amended Executive Regulations for 2017 are sufficient to control the traffic situation on the roads, adding that the application of the legal provisions in the amended Traffic Law is sufficient to impose and implement any penalty in the Implementing Regulations of the Fines Schedule applicable to motorists, violators and non-compliant. By law.