‘Family’ show how not to drive in police video
THE NATIONAL STAFF
Dubai Police has made an example of a fictional family in its latest video to spread the message of safe driving.
The short film was released three weeks after stricter road safety rules came into force. These include a law that occupants front and back are buckled up. In the video, an Emirati family are driving with an unbuckled child on the mother’s lap. At the wheel, the father ignores the road ahead.
The car swerves across a lane, the driver uses a handheld phone and allows the children to move around the car.
Police said that the driver racked up 20 black points and Dh4,200 in 60 seconds.
The video led to debate on social media.
There were times Muhammad Waqas and his wife allowed their children to sit unbuckled in a car, he wrote on Dubai Police’s Facebook page.
“I have been driving and my wife has kept on passing our kid forward and backward,” Mr Waqas said. “We will be very careful for our own safety and for the rest of people.”