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29 March 2024

UAE needs to cut road speed-limit gap: Official

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The UAE should cut the speed limit gap on key roads as it has become a key cause of serious accidents which often result in deaths, the Dubai traffic police chief was quoted on Sunday as saying.

Major-General Mohammed Saif Al Zafin said there is a gap of 40 km between the maximum and minimum speed limit on some UAE roads, describing this as ‘unreasonable’.

Quoted by local newspapers, he said traffic studies conducted in some countries have shown that  a car travelling at 120 kph banging into a vehicle moving at  100 kph would cause fewer casualties  than an accident involving a car moving at 100 kph and another at 60 kph.

He said that another study carried out by Dubai’s traffic department supported those findings, adding that the study involved the use of speed cameras tracking nearly 3,000 vehicles on the emirate’s roads over a specific  period of time.

Zafin said the study showed that the high speed gap was  responsible for nearly 35 per cent of the accidents that occurred during that period.

“The speed gap on some UAE roads is 40 km while it is between 20 and 30 km in most countries….the high gap has proven to be a key cause of serious accidents and deaths on roads…this should prompt plans to narrow this gap to increase safety on roads.”
 

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