MoI launches traffic awareness campaign

abu dhabi — The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has launched its third unified traffic awareness campaign for the year under the slogan, ‘Summer Without Accidents’, as part of the efforts of its traffic sector to promote road safety and achieve a rate of only three deaths per 100,000 residents by 2021.

Major-General Mohammed Saif Al Zafeen, assistant commanderin-chief for Operations at the Dubai Police and Chairman of the Federal Traffic Council, said that the threemonth campaign reflects the ministry’s strategy to make the roads safer, and is a realisation of the vision of the police command to maintain the highest levels of traffic safety for all road users.

He added that traffic accidents still concern officials from national traffic and patrol administrations, due to their harmful effects, such as deaths, injuries and material losses, which cost the country considerable sums of money. He explained that the statistics issued by the Traffic Coordination General Directorate show a decline in the number of accidents that occurred during last year’s summer season.

Maj-Gen Al Zafeen noted that the statistics show that the number of deaths, during the same period, that resulted from traffic accidents decreased by 66 between 2016 and 2017, from 168 to 102.

It also showed a 14.57 per cent decrease in the number of injuries during last year’s summer season compared to 2016, from 1,441 to 1,231, a difference of 210, he further noted. —