Abu Dhabi Police enhances traffic awareness with the “Safety Path” campaign for private company employees
Abu Dhabi(News Desk)::AbuDhabi Police has enhanced awareness within the (Safety Path 2) campaign for employees of private sector companies on traffic safety rules and avoiding traffic accidents, their causes, effects and resulting losses through an awareness lecture implemented by the Traffic Awareness and Education Section in the Traffic and Security Patrols Directorate in the Central Operations Sector for employees of private companies with the aim of enhancing safety for employees, drivers and road users.
Brigadier Mahmoud Yousef Al Balushi, Director of the Traffic and Security Patrols Directorate, explained that the awareness campaign focused on spreading the culture of traffic safety and identifying the dangers of wrong behaviors committed by some drivers, praising the positive reactions of the public to the objectives of the (Safety Path 2 Campaign) within the strategic priority of road safety, which focuses on implementing traffic safety regulations, increasing traffic culture, and reducing the number of accidents leading to deaths and serious injuries.
The lecture was delivered by First Assistant Yaqoub Yousef Al Hosani from the Traffic Awareness and Education Branch of the Traffic and Security Patrols Department in the External Areas, warning of the dangers of running a red light and the need to ensure that vehicles do not cross traffic lights unless their path is clear to make way for vehicles coming from other directions in the event of a traffic light change, stressing the need to raise traffic culture among drivers to avoid the dangers of stopping in a yellow box.
The lecture reviewed the risks of being distracted from driving due to using the phone to browse the Internet and social networking sites, make calls, or take pictures, and other behaviors that may lead to serious traffic accidents. It included guidance advice for users of electric bikes, and focused on the necessity of using them on the designated paths for their practice, with the obligation to wear a helmet, knee bumpers, and reflective clothing (phosphorous), especially when riding at night, and to provide the bike with a white reflective front light and a red rear light linked to the brakes, and to adhere to safety instructions, prevention requirements, and regulations, and to park it in the designated places for it (if any), and not to leave it in a way that obstructs the movement of vehicles or pedestrians, and not to install it on traffic sign posts and lighting poles.
She called on cyclists to wear a helmet and use protective covers for the arms and knees, provide the bike with a white front light and a red rear light, place a reflective rear plate to alert road users, not carry weights that affect the balance of the cyclist, ride on service roads and paths designated for bicycles, drive carefully on pedestrian paths to avoid colliding with them, use designated paths in parks and stay away from crowded areas.
