Dubai: Dubai Police have impounded the car of a young Emirati woman for driving at over 170 km/h with five girls between six and 14 years hanging precariously out of the SUV’s open windows.
One of the girls almost fell out when the speeding car swerved around a roundabout near Al Warqa at about 2am earlier this week. “She was driving over 170 km/h on a road where the speed limit is 80 km/h. A police patrol tailed the SUV without trying to intercept it as it might have scared the woman and caused an accident,” a police official told XPRESS. “But we did call for other patrol to stop the car at the end of the road.”
Strangely, when the woman, who is in her 20s, was eventually stopped and confronted with a video recording made by the police while following her vehicle, she denied speeding and endangering the lives of her passengers.
However, the six-year-old passenger admitted she nearly fell out of the car window when the vehicle hugged a curve too fast. The “speed queen” was fined Dh1,000 for endangering the lives of passengers and other motorists. Her car has been impounded for one month and she has been given 12 black points on her licence.
The incident is not the first of its kind. A few months ago another young Emirati woman was caught racing down the same road. When the police stopped her to impound her car, she refused to hand it over and nearly ran over a police officer while he tried to reason with her.
During the weekend alone 24 cars were impounded for speeding and performing dangerous stunts. As many as 25,269 cars were impounded in 2011, many of them for similar offences.
