Thelonius: In Saudi Arabia they put you in jail for several hours with a penalty if you were unable to stop and had crossed the red signal. If one deliberately crosses the red light, the jail term is for three days and penalty is also higher. However, the law looks the other way when Saudis break the traffic signals. As such, one sees the jails being filled with 80% expats and just 20% Saudis. Yet again at the end of the year when the statistics are reported in the newspapers, it gets to show the expats to be the greatest violators on traffic rules on the roads! Of course it would be as the Saudis are caught only when the violation are of serious nature and the authorities cannot just keep their eyes shut!
Thelonius: In Saudi Arabia they put you in jail for several hours with a penalty if you were unable to stop and had crossed the red signal. If one deliberately crosses the red light, the jail term is for three days and penalty is also higher. However, the law looks the other way when Saudis break the traffic signals. As such, one sees the jails being filled with 80% expats and just 20% Saudis. Yet again at the end of the year when the statistics are reported in the newspapers, it gets to show the expats to be the greatest violators on traffic rules on the roads! Of course it would be as the Saudis are caught only when the violation are of serious nature and the authorities cannot just keep their eyes shut!