Traffic fine payments, 7 other services fully online in Dubai

Motorists in Dubai will now have to pay traffic fines and request for instalments online with effect from April 1, 2019, as these services will no longer be provided in person.

Announcing this at a press conference held at the Traffic Department in Dubai Police. Dubai Police said they were among eight public services that will go completely online next month.

The new services that will be provided online include: payment of traffic fines payment, requests for traffic accident reports (where no one is injured), copy of lost traffic accident reports, traffic fine instalments using credit cards, traffic clearance certificates, reports of traffic accidents committed by unknown persons, list of traffic fines and checking of traffic condition.

List of services which will go online by April 1

• Traffic fine payment
• Request for traffic accident report where no one is injured
• Request for copy of lost traffic accident reports
• Payment of traffic fine instalment using credit cards
• Request for a traffic clearance certificate
• Request for a report of a traffic accident committed by an unknown person
• Request for a list of traffic fines
• Checking traffic condition

In the next phase, four services will go exclusively online by July 1. The services include requests for smart impounding of vehicles, fee payment for impounded cars, instalment of traffic fines via cheques and release of impounded vehicles.

Meanwhile, Brigadier Khalid Nasser Al Razooqi, Director of the Artificial Intelligence at Dubai Police, said that 80.6 per cent of customers currently use Dubai Police’s smart services, while 19.4 per cent still goes in person to customer service.

“Our strategy is to encourage people to use smart services. We provided smart police stations and about 1,000 kiosks to pay traffic fines and other services. We have cooperation with banks and money wiring offices to provide a diversity of channels. Our aim is to reduce time and effort and cut costs. Our services are provided in seven languages,” Brig Al Razooqi said.

Passenger seat belts - New traffic law will come into effect from July in U.AE

Drivers will be fined Dh400 for each passenger who is found without a seatbelt inside the vehicle, a senior official told Gulf News on Saturday.

General Mohammad Saif Al Zafein, head of the UAE Federal Traffic Council, said that even if the if the driver is wearing his seatbelt, he can be fined if other passengers on the back seats are not wearing seatbelts.

“The fine is Dh400 for each passenger not wearing a seatbelt, so if the driver is wearing a seatbelt and other three passengers are not wearing it, then he needs to pay Dh1,200 in total for the three passengers, with four traffic points. Drivers are responsible for ensuring that passengers are using the seatbelt,” General Al Zafein said.

The new regulations, covering a comprehensive range of traffic discipline issues and violations, will be implemented on the first of July, according to General Al Zafein.

Officially signed by Lieutenant General Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, the new regulations cover multiple violations, the penalties for which include heavy fines, black points, and impounding of vehicles.

Gen Al Zafein said that the new rules will restrict short people and children below 10 years of age from sitting in the front passenger seat given that the seatbelt can choke the person.

“Children under 10 and every person who his less than 145 cm in height will be banned from sitting on the passenger front seat. Officers can fine the driver Dh400. If the person is taller than 145 cm, then he needs to show any document showing his height or he can complain against the fine with the traffic department,” he said.

He added that appropriate child car seats must be used for all children under the age of four. Lack of child safety seats for children up to four years of age will invite a Dh400 fine and four black points.

Official statistics show that 725 people died in traffic accidents in the UAE last year and the new traffic law will help to reduce the number of death on the roads, Gen. Al Zafein said. “We want to reach a figure of 3 deaths for every 100,000 people in the UAE. This law will help us in reaching our target for safer and better roads,” he added.

New Traffic Rules and Fines in U.A.E

The UAE government on Tuesday introduced new amendments to federal traffic laws, in a bid to make the country's roads safer.

According to these amendments, passengers will be fined for not wearing seat belts, while children up to four years of age must sit in special child seats.

Children aged 10 and above can now sit on the front seat, but they must be at least 145 cm tall.

Here are the salient features of the decree on the new rules:

• Children up to 4 years of age must be seated in special child seats
• Children aged 10 and above can sit in the front seat, but they must be at least 145 cm tall. Earlier, children under 10 years old were not allowed to sit in the front seat of a vehicle and the offense would draw a fine of Dh400 along with 4 black points.

• Illegally carrying/transporting passengers now draws a fine of Dh3,000 (up from Dh200), 24 black points instead of 4 black points, and the vehicle will be impounded for one-month instead of seven days.
•  Along with drivers, now even passengers will face fines for failing to wear seat belts.

Until today, drivers were fined Dh400 and got 4 black points for failing to fastening seat belts.

Seatbelts mandatory for rear seat passengers in Dubai

The General Department of Traffic of Dubai Police has prepared a new Bill which, once approved, will make it mandatory for rear passengers in vehicles to wear seat belts, according to Arabic dailies this morning.

The proposal says it will be the driver’s responsibility to ensure that all passengers in a vehicle are buckled up, and in the event of failing to do so, the driver may be fined.

Lt. General Engineer Mohammed Saif Al Zaffin said the proposal was made based on accidents in which rear passengers could have avoided injuries or even deaths had they been wearing seatbelts.

He added that the Police found that the risk for children sitting in the back seat doubled because they rarely buckle up, with their parents believing that sitting in the rear would automatically protect them in case of an accident.

He stressed that the draft law imposed on the driver to oblige the passengers sitting in the back seat to harness seat belts, and in case of a failure to do so, he will be subject to violation.