Abu Dhabi Police confirmed that it will not be applied retroactively
Vehicle reservation fees are not exempt from Federal Traffic Law fines
Abu Dhabi vehicle seizure law aims to deter reckless drivers.
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Lt. Col. Musallam Al-Junaibi: There is a specialized committee formed to look into all the grievances received.
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Abu Dhabi Police confirmed that the collection of fees for unlawfully seizing violating vehicles, which ranged between 5 and 50 thousand dirhams, according to Law No. 5 of 2020 regarding vehicle seizure in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, which came into effect last week, does not exempt violators from the penalties stipulated in the Federal Traffic Law. And what it includes in terms of financial fines, traffic points and vehicle seizure.
She emphasized that the vehicle seizure law in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi is a local law that does not contradict the Federal Traffic and Traffic Law, as the penalty was only increased by adding fees to a group of dangerous violations, stressing that the violations committed before the law came into effect on the ninth of September this year are not applied to them. Vehicle reservation fees.
In detail, the Deputy Director of the Traffic Engineering and Road Safety Department at Abu Dhabi Police, Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Musallam Al-Junaibi, confirmed that the Federal Traffic Law is still in effect, including penalties, fines, traffic points, and seizure of vehicles according to the schedule of violations, indicating that according to the new law, it has been added. Financial fines for releasing vehicles seized for a specific group of dangerous traffic offenses.
Al-Junaibi stated that the new legislation regarding the seizure of vehicles in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi came after extensive traffic studies on the main causes of serious accidents, where a group of dangerous violations was chosen, to tighten penalties against careless offenders on the roads, and to reduce their dangerous behavior, stressing that the decision is directed to It does not target the majority of committed drivers who will not be affected by it.
He explained that Law No. 5 of 2020 regarding the seizure of vehicles in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi introduced the seizure penalty for six offenses for which it was not previously applied, and the seizure is only released after paying the fine prescribed for it, which hits a police patrol or causes damage to it, resulting in a fine of 50 One thousand dirhams, and the violator is charged the value of the damage caused to the police patrol, and the second is a race on the road, and it is not released until after paying 50 thousand dirhams.
He added that the third offense is driving a vehicle with artificial, forged or obscured number plates, or has been changed or used in a manner inconsistent with the legislation in force, with the driver’s knowledge of that, resulting in 50,000 dirhams, and the fourth causing an accident due to excessive speed, sudden deviation or Not leaving a sufficient safety distance, or not giving priority to pedestrians, and they are not released unless after paying 50 thousand dirhams, and the fifth is allowing children under the age of 10 years to sit in the front seats, and they pay 5000 dirhams to break the reservation, and the sixth if the group of violations exceeds Traffic on the vehicle, an amount of 7000 dirhams, requires the vehicle to be seized, and the reservation is only released after paying all the fines imposed on the vehicle.
He added that there are four violations for which a seizure was applied in the past, but the law added to them fees for the release of the reservation, after it has spent the period of confinement stipulated in the Federal Traffic and Traffic Law, and the owner of the car can only receive it after paying the fees for dismantling the reservation according to the new vehicle reservation law, which is Driving a vehicle that poses a threat to the driver's life or the lives of others, and it entails 50 thousand dirhams to break the reservation, bypass the red light, on which 50 thousand dirhams to break the reservation, and to withdraw the driver's license for six months starting from the date of revoking the license, and making changes to the vehicle's engine. Without a license, the fees for deconditioning the vehicle amount to 10 thousand dirhams, exceeding the speed limit by no more than 60 km per hour, and the fees for unbooking the vehicle amount to 5000 dirhams.
Al-Junaibi warned that there is a specialized committee formed to look into all the grievances contained in this law, where they are studied, to confirm the merits of the violation and their validity, and to take the appropriate decision.
Smart reservation
Abu Dhabi Police confirmed that the smart reservation service for vehicles instead of seizing them in the designated yards is still in place, with the start of the application of Law No. 5 of 2020 regarding the reservation of vehicles in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, where the vehicle can be reserved at the location chosen by the owner and anywhere in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi or the UAE And after the lapse of the attachment period, he pays the fines prescribed in accordance with the law in order to be able to release the seizure.
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