A total of 5944 people benefitted from 63 traffic awareness lectures organized by the Traffic and Patrols Directorate General of Abu Dhabi Police in the city of Al Ain, during the first quarter of the year. This comes in line with Abu Dhabi Police’s traffic safety strategy, as well as the Traffic Awareness Plan for 2013 which includes 19 awareness programs. It aims to promote the culture of traffic among all segments of society in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Major Saif Mohammed Nuaif Al Ameri, Acting Chief of the Al Ain Traffic and Patrols Department noted that the awareness lectures organized by the Public Relations Branch at Al Ain Traffic Department benefitted students of military colleges, universities, Higher Technology colleges, institutes, public and private schools, as well as the bus drivers and supervisors of the Emirates Transport Company in the city of Al Ain.
For his part, Captain Rashid Mohammed Al Saghir Al Shamsi, Acting Manager of the Public Relations Branch at Al Ain Traffic and Patrols Department indicated that the lectures focused on providing guidance to motorists on the major causes of traffic accidents, ways to prevent their incidence, the most common traffic violations and the resulting penalties and fines. He also pointed out that the lectures targeting students and school bus supervisors focused on the mechanisms and systems to maintain traffic safety in educational institutions in their various stages, as well as the necessary measures to be taken upon approaching students’ gathering points within campuses or residential neighborhoods. The lectures also emphasized the importance of supervisors’ role in maintaining students’ safety on the bus, as well as during boarding and exiting the bus, so as to ensure their safety.
In conclusion, Captain Al Shamsi mentioned that awareness programs targeting elementary schools students and kindergartens included workshops, in addition to lectures, to train students on how to board and exit school buses properly, how to sit quietly inside the bus, and not to extend their hands outside the windows, in order to avoid traffic incidents that can lead to serious injury.