Intensifying awareness programs to promote positive traffic behaviours

Abu Dhabi Police prepares for the academic year with a comprehensive plan to secure the return of students

The plan focuses on intensifying traffic patrols at intersections and internal and external roads in the emirate.

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Abu Dhabi Police has completed its preparations for the new academic year with a comprehensive plan in cooperation with strategic partners to ensure the return of students to school, and to reach the highest levels of traffic safety for all in general, and school students in particular, under the slogan “Traffic Safety for School Students.”

The Director of the Traffic and Patrols Directorate, Brigadier General Muhammad Dhahi Al-Hamiri, stressed that the safety of students is a top priority, and meetings have been held with various strategic partners, with the aim of supporting efforts to maintain their security and safety and educational staff.

He stated that the plan to secure the return of students focuses on intensifying traffic patrols at intersections and internal and external roads in the emirate, and patrols of traffic sergeants to regulate traffic and facilitate the movement of school buses, as well as making sure of pedestrian crossings to ensure traffic safety for our students while getting off the vehicle until reaching the door. The school, in order to achieve its goals consistent with the strategy aimed at making the roads safer.

He pointed to the directorate's interest in intensifying awareness programs to promote positive traffic behaviors for various segments of society, including road users, and to familiarize them with the laws and regulations, and to provide the highest standards of traffic safety for students while they were on their way to and back from their schools.

He pointed out that the focus will be on educating drivers about the importance of paying attention while driving their vehicles, reducing speeds near schools, committing to safe driving, and cooperating with traffic patrols to enhance the flow of traffic to avoid accidents.

He called on families to pay attention, while transporting their children to schools, and not to allow those under the age of ten to sit in the front seats, and help them cross the street, as well as use the spaces designated for parking vehicles at schools, to avoid obstructing traffic, and to teach children the correct ways to get up and down from bus, and warn them not to play on the street, while waiting for buses.

He urged school bus drivers to stand in designated and safe places, give students the opportunity to be able to board them, sit in the seats, make sure they get off, and not approach the buses before they move, and he also called on them not to speed, while driving the bus, and to implement preventive measures, for driving. To be safe during fog, to leave a safety distance, and to commit to opening the side “stop” arm when students are getting up and down from it.

He stressed the necessity of committing to fully stopping the vehicles when opening the "stop" arm of the buses, with a distance of no less than five meters, to ensure that students cross safely, noting that a fine of 500 dirhams and six traffic points will be applied, when the bus driver does not commit to opening the "stop" sign. Or failure to comply with traffic instructions and instructions, and a fine of 1,000 dirhams and 10 traffic points will be applied, for drivers not stopping when they see the “stop” sign for school buses.

 500

Dhs fine and 6 traffic points when the bus driver fails to open the “stop” sign.

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