Over 96,000 offences so far this month

Dubai: Police have reported more than 96,000 traffic offences since the beginning of this month for an average of 4,000 a day, a senior police official said on Wednesday.

The total number of traffic offences reported from November 1 to November 21 was 96,286. His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has ordered police to come down hard on traffic offenders.

Brigadier Mohammad Saif Al Zafein, Director of Dubai Police's Traffic Department, said the traffic control teams and traffic patrols are taking strict procedures against motorists who commit traffic offences.

He said speeding offences caught by radars totalled 51,456 violations.

Meanwhile, a pickup driver will spend six months in jail and pay a Dh10,000 fine after jumping a red signal, hitting a vehicle, injuring the female driver, her two children and the housemaid, the Dubai Traffic Court of First Instance has ruled.

The woman was blinded as a result of the accident.

The pickup driver will be deported after serving his jail term.