Black points - Decline in accidents
10.3.2008 :
The number of serious accidents reported after the announcement of new amended federal law against traffic violations and the black points attached to it went down to a great extent.
The decline reached to 90 percent in some cases of violations according to comparative statistics released by the general department of traffic at the ministry of interior.
Colonel Gaith Hassan Al Saabi, director of the traffic department, pointed out that there was a noticeable fall in the traffic violations related to speed limit of 60Km/Hfrom the previous 548 violations recorded in the last five days of February, the number slumped to mere 20 violations, a marked 93 percent decline.
Similarly a violation related to jumping red signal too was reduced to mere 20 cases making almost 90 percent reductions he added.
