Portable speed radars on key Sharjah roads

Maliha, Al Dhaid and Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed roads will now be monitored |

Sharjah Police will be placing portable speeding radars on key Sharjah roads which witness multiple traffic accidents.

The decision was made in light of the fact that motorists have been exceeding the speed limits on these roads repeatedly.

The portable radars will be used on Maliha Road, Al Dhaid Road and Shaikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road to catch speedsters.

Police said this step will ensure the safety of the road users.

Sharjah Police posted a video on their Instagram account explaining their decision.

In May this year, Sharjah Police installed 30 new smart radar units across the emirate’s roads.

The new tube-shaped radars target, primarily, speeding motorists and aggressive tailgaters but can also track a long list of driving transgressions, said police.

Sharjah Police’s new radars can catch different traffic violations at the same time, including vehicles going slower than the minimum speed, vehicles not leaving enough distance from those in front, heavy vehicles not abiding by their designated lanes, heavy vehicles that are on the road outside their designated timings and vehicles being driven on the hard shoulder.

The radars are programmed to watch traffic from both sides of the road and catch more than one violation at a time in either direction.

The new radars are fitted with 3G technology that instantly sends data such as licence plate numbers directly to the traffic department.

Brigadier Saif Mohammad Al Ziri Al Shamsi, Commander-in-Chief of Sharjah Police, said this is a part of Sharjah Police’ Internal Accelerators programme with an aim towards bringing down traffic accidents to realise the National Agenda 2021 vision of making the UAE one of the world’s safest and most secure countries.

To achieve these goals, new radar units have been installed on five key roads — Maliha, Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed, Emirates, Al Ittihad and Sharjah-Al Dhaid roads. There were five deaths on these five roads in the first quarter of the year, said police.