Sharjah: Neighbourhoods across Sharjah are a little quieter these days after police here confiscated cars boosted with high-performance parts and loud engines.
Police said 13 cars were seized over the Eid Al Adha holidays as part of a campaign that continues the policing strategy in recent years to remove modified vehicles from Sharjah streets.
Souped-up cars present not only a menace to public safety by drivers who race each other well beyond speed limits, the sounds of the cars are far louder than factory models after revisions are made to engines and exhaust systems, police said.
Another major problem, police said, is that younger brash drivers engage in high-speed racing and loud stunts at night when most people are at home.
Colonel Ahmad Bin Darwish, acting director of Traffic and Patrols Department of Sharjah Police, said the crackdown on noisy vehicles in residential is “to stop motorists from driving in a reckless manner and disturbing the peace of neighbourhoods,” he said.
“They were organising illegal rallies and performing stunts on the roads and caused chaos and panic among other motorists,” Col Bin Darwish said.
“Confiscated vehicles included cars whose engines [were modified] to make loud noises,” he said.
Col Bin Darwish said the campaign, which was launched earlier this year, has focused on groups who organise illegal rallies and racing during the holiday.
The campaign will continue in emirate of Sharjah which recently witnessed a number of tragic accidents due to speeding, he said.
Col Bin Darwish police will patrol roads known to be frequented by the youth for street racing and other illegal practices involving modification of cars to increase speed.
