Families can play a key role in bringing down traffic violations
Families can play a key role in bringing down the number of traffic violations and road mishaps in Qatar, Brigadier Mohamed Saad Al Kharji, Director, Traffic Department, and Vice-Chairman, National Committee for Traffic Safety, has said.
He said senior members of the family should repeatedly alert young members over speeding and violating traffic rules. Of 2,245 road mishaps in Qatar last year, young Qataris were involved in 45. “Ignorance is not an excuse.”
He said collecting money is not the real objective behind penalising traffic violators. The aim is to make sure everyone is strictly adhering to the law and to make the country traffic accident-free. “Cancellations of fines are done only on humanitarian ground,” he told a symposium on ‘Traffic safety’ at Qatar University (QU).
Lt.-Col. Mohammed Radi Al Hajri, Director, Media and Awareness, Traffic Department, stressed the need for supporting QU’s traffic safety campaign on and called on all sections of community to spread the message of traffic safety, especially among school and university students.
Maha Thyseer, a QU faculty, said: “There are 18,000 students and employees in Qatar University. Majority of them belongs to young age group. It is important to alert them over the dangers of over-speeding and using mobile phones and sending texts while driving”.
