Sharjah: A 26-year-old Egyptian man died after his car crashed into a shop in Sharjah on Friday while trying to navigate a roundabout.
Police said the driver lost control of his vehicle when it veered off the road in Al Majara area and crashed.
There was damage to the shop but no one inside was injured, police said.
A Sharjah Police official told Gulf News that the driver, identified as K.T., was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident.
Early investigation by Wasit police station officers suggests the man died from heart-related problems given that the victim has a medical history of cardiac problems and had undergone heart surgery to install a device to maintain a regular heart beat.
Police arrived at the scene of the incident and had to remove the car from the shop.
The body of the deceased was taken to Al Kuwaiti Hospital.
Wasit police station launched an investigation into the incident.
Meanwhile, traffic authorities in UAE stress the importance of any person wanting to obtain driving licence undergoing a full medical check-up for their safety and that of road users.
Recently, UAE traffic authorities said they plan to link the Ministry of Health database to traffic police networks to ensure drivers do not suffer from chronic diseases to prevent deadly accidents caused by ill drivers.
The latest crash comes after a 22-year-old Emirati driver suffered an epileptic fit at the wheel of his pick-up truck on July 17 and ploughed into a MacDonald’s restaurant at an Eppco station in Al Hamidiya area in Ajman.
The freak accident killed a 45-year-old Indian woman and a nine-year-old Iraqi boy while injuring six others. Three of the six injured people were children.
Colonel Abdullah Al Hamrani, deputy chief of Ajman Police, said at the time that the “accident was caused due to the driver suffering a severe epilepsy attack. He lost control of the vehicle after stepping on the accelerator, sending the vehicle crashing into the glass window of a McDonald’s”.
