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DOHA: The Traffic Department seized a number of vehicles for violating speed limits related traffic rules recently, said Colonel Mohammed Radhi Al Hajri, Director of Media and Traffic Awareness Department.
He said that using of mobile phone during driving is one of the main causes of most traffic accidents because it divert the attention of motorists.
“Now the problem is that mobile phones are used for various purposes other than making calls and it creates more chances to divert the attentions of motorists,” said Al Hajri. “A motorist who drives over 200km/hr is transferred to the Public Prosecution directly.
The worst traffic accident this year was three days before holy Ramadan when three youths died in an accident, and the reason was speeding and not fastening seat belt,” he added.
He pointed this out while speaking on Saturday night at a symposium organised by the General Directorate of Traffic at Al Khor as part of Ramadan awareness campaign and attended by a number of traffic officers and members of the Central Municipal Council (CMC). Colonel Al Hajri said that parents would ask the Department to release vehicles which help the youths to continue violations.
“During an inspection drive on a secondary school, we discovered that 90 percent of the students drive their vehicles without driving licenses. Also many parents in the presence of their children drive their vehicles without respecting the legal speed which encourages their sons to do the same,” he added.
Related to speed hump which is requested by residents to reduce speed, he said that not all streets are supposed to have industrial speed humps and any requests in this regard are studied from all sides to see if they will hinder traffic or not.
“There are two ways to create these humps; the first is built at the expense of the state and the second is built at the expense of individuals under the supervision of Department and there are random speed humps some of them established on vital roads and when the department found that they hinder traffic and we immediately removed them.”
