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19 March 2024

3-truck collision on Emirates Road; one dead

Accident near the Sharjah winter camps was caused by a vehicle colliding with another, which ran aground into a truck. (supplied)

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By Bindu Rai

A three-truck collision on Emirates Road on Wednesday resulted in the death of one person, while injuring another.

The deceased is a 43-year-old male of Asian descent, according to Dubai Police.

The authorities said the tragedy occurred near the Sharjah winter camps and was caused by a vehicle colliding with another, which ran aground into a truck.

The driver of the first truck was killed immediately, while the driver of the centre vehicle was rushed to the nearest hospital due to injuries.

Brigadier Saeed Hamad bin Sulaiman, Director of Al Rashidiya Police Station, said the authority received a call to the operating room informing them of a collision between several vehicles on the Emirates Road.

Patrols were dispatched immediately to the scene.

Ramadan driving

This incident occurred a day after two people were injured in a five-vehicle collision on Emirates Road.

Brigadier Sulaiman stated two of the drivers were injured, with one sustaining severe injuries.

Of the five vehicles involved in the crash, one pick-up truck had overturned due to the impact of the collision.

According to Dubai Police, five people have been killed and seven injured in separate accidents during the first half of Ramadan

Lt Col Juma Ahmad Butti Al Falasi, director of the Search and Rescue Department at Dubai Police, said in a statement that five people were killed and seven others were injured in a spate of maritime and land accidents during the first fifteen days of the month of Ramadan.

He added that rescue missions carried out by the department included cutting out traffic accident victims who got stuck in their vehicles, rescuing people who got lost in the desert and rescuing people trapped in homes or elevators.

"The target response time is 12 minutes, but our teams' average is 7-8 minutes, as response speed is crucial in the incidents we attend to,” he said in a statement, adding: “The Dubai Police’s land rescue department conducted 24,865 land rescue missions with response time of seven to eight minutes, in 2015.”