The General Directorate of Traffic distributed reflective safety vests among workers at Corniche as part of its campaign to reduce pedestrian traffic accidents on roads The event also highlighted an education to workers on how to cross roads from designated places.

According to recent data of the General Directorate of Traffic 32 death cases were registered in the country in 2017. To minimize this problem, an effort was made by the Traffic Department to reduce run-over accidents in areas witnessing more fatalities by launching several campaigns.

One of their campaigns is part of ‘Accident-free Summer’ awareness campaign by the Ministry of Interior. The main objective of the campaign is to educate workers on the importance of crossing roads from designated areas to save lives and avoid violating traffic rules.

The Traffic Department will start recording violations of traffic rules by pedestrians from August 1, 2019, and will impose a fine of up to QR500 depending on the type of offense.

The officers participated in the awareness event stressed the importance of using crosswalks or footbridges to cross the road and acknowledged the rights of the pedestrians to cross safely even in the absence of a traffic signal and in the internal roads.

According to article 61 of law No. 17/2007 regarding the traffic law anyone intending to cross the carriageway shall do so with caution, and shall first ensure that the place chosen does not expose them to any danger or cause obstruction to traffic.

Source: The Peninsula

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