Authority urges residents to make use of designated crossings and observe site visitors guidelines
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The Sharjah Police have warned pedestrians in opposition to the hazards of jaywalking, which may trigger accidents leading to dying or severe accidents.
In keeping with federal site visitors regulation, pedestrians who fail to abide by the site visitors sign and cross roads from non-designated areas entail a fantastic of Dh400.
This warning from the authority comes throughout a site visitors consciousness marketing campaign that targets pedestrians. Main Abdullah Salem Al-Mandhari, Head of the Visitors and Patrols Division at Sharjah Police, stated that the marketing campaign focused pedestrians who violate the regulation by crossing the street randomly.
The marketing campaign contains publishing consciousness supplies on social media platforms and information websites in Arabic, English, and Urdu, reaching 17,000 individuals.
He known as on the residents to stick to the legal guidelines regulating site visitors and the significance of crossing from designated locations for the protection and safety of pedestrians and motorists.
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Main Al Mandhari stated that the protection of pedestrians on the street is a shared duty between drivers and pedestrians. Motorists have a significant position in reaching security by means of warning and a spotlight whereas driving in areas populated by pedestrians.
He identified that the intensification of site visitors campaigns all year long goals to boost consciousness amongst neighborhood members. The campaigns are being organized based mostly on the statistics of the previous yr, which contributes to discovering options to a few of the observations that have been beforehand monitored.