Dubai: Starting from Sunday Dubai Police will start replacing 52 old radars across Dubai roads with the new Vitronic (Al Burj) radars.
Colonel Saif Muhair Al Mazroui, Director of Dubai Traffic Police, said the new radars will replace the old ones on Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Road, Shaikh Zayed Road and Emirates Road.
“The old radars we are removing will be placed in other roads in Dubai that need radars,” he said.
The vitronic radar, which was introduced to some roads around April 2014, has the ability to record eight violations: vehicles speeding, vehicles going below the speed limit, vehicles not leaving enough distance between other vehicles, drivers not wearing a seat belt, drivers using their mobile phone, heavy vehicles not abiding by their designated lanes, heavy vehicles that are on the road outside their designated timings and vehicles driving on the hard shoulder.
Some of the function have not been activated yet.
“There will also be 32 new radars to be placed on intersections. We will be receiving them soon from the manufacturer,” Col Al Mazroui said.
This is in addition to 18 devices to catch people driving on the hard shoulder that is still in the production phase. The 18 devices will be placed on outer roads including, Mohammad Bin Zayed Road, Al Ain Road, Shaikh Zayed Road, and Al Hibab road.
Col Al Mazroui said that road fatalities have gone down in the first four months of 2015, compared with the same period last year.
“This year there were only 51 road deaths in the first four months, as opposed to the 69 deaths recorded in the same period in 2014.”
