Tuesday: 10 August 2010:
Traffic Competition in six months
The Grand International Artistic Traffic Competition may mean ADP Department of Traffic and Patrols and Saaed for Traffic Systems can enter a Guinness World Record for the total number of entries in a fine arts competition. 134,583 local and international participations have entered over six months from the date the competition was announced last February. Participation will remain open until the end of this year.
Colonel (Engineer) Hussain Ahmed Al Harthi, Director of ADP Department of Traffic and Patrols and Chairman of Saaed Company Board of Directors has thanked the participants, young people and adults, for their participation and the interest they have shown in the competition. The aim of the competition is to boost traffic safety levels and to reduce accidents on roads. He hopes that the number of participants will increase in order to break the previous global record of 141,000.
Al Harthi said "We will continue receiving entries in the competition which is organized under the theme 'Traffic Safety” in pictures, paintings, and posters through the competition e-mail 'Art.competition@saaed.ae', the Company Headquarters at Khalifa (A) or by post, P.O.Box: 113966- Abu Dhabi. We expect that the number of participations will exceed 150,000".
"The Traffic Department and Saaed have applied to Guinness World Records to register as potential record breaker. If the attempt succeeds the UAE will be crowned with this great achievement", added Al Harthi.
'A committee of 7 chaired by Maryam Mohammad Al Ahmadi, Executive Manager of Public Relations and Customers Service will sort through the initial entries. Then they will be forwarded to a panel of judges from the Emirates Fine Arts Society for endorsement", added Al Harthi.
An Arab artist has submitted more than 11 thousand paintings. Some paintings are from the children of accident victims, disabled="disabled" persons and correctional and punitive establishments' inmates.
