Early education key to making UAE’s roads safer, experts say

Dubai: More than 80 per cent of drivers in the UAE don’t use indicators when required, a survey has revealed.

The survey, one of several conducted by Road Safety UAE, also listed speeding, tailgating, lane swerving and lane jumping among the dangers on UAE roads.

Authorities have made efforts to make roads safer by imposing stringent penalities on offenders and enhancing driver training and road management, but there is some way to go still in instilling desired road discipline, experts said.

“The fundamental issue we are facing islack of road etiquette. We see that people lack basic courtesy towards others. That is why we at Road Safety UAE initiated the surveys to understand what was happening,” Thomas Edelmann, founder and managing director of Road Safety UAE, said.

Highlighting the findings of the surveys, he said that distracted driving is a key contributor to lane swerving, which is the leading reason for fatal traffic accidents.

 

Dubai: More than 80 per cent of drivers in the UAE don’t use indicators when required, a survey has revealed.

The survey, one of several conducted by Road Safety UAE, also listed speeding, tailgating, lane swerving and lane jumping among the dangers on UAE roads.

Authorities have made efforts to make roads safer by imposing stringent penalities on offenders and enhancing driver training and road management, but there is some way to go still in instilling desired road discipline, experts said.

“The fundamental issue we are facing islack of road etiquette. We see that people lack basic courtesy towards others. That is why we at Road Safety UAE initiated the surveys to understand what was happening,” Thomas Edelmann, founder and managing director of Road Safety UAE, said.

Highlighting the findings of the surveys, he said that distracted driving is a key contributor to lane swerving, which is the leading reason for fatal traffic accidents.