“If the pedestrian was detained for violating the rules of the road divisions, the inspector will ask for his ID. Then he will be issued a fine of 200 dirhams (US $ 55), which, if prescribed by law, he / she will have to pay immediately location, ”said Major General Mohammed Safe Al Zafin, director of the traffic department of the Dubai Traffic Police.“ If the offender does not have the money to pay the fine immediately, then he will be taken to the police station and will be there until op, while fails to pay the fine. "
According to Al Zafin, the use of harsh measures against violating pedestrians is an integral part of the Dubai Traffic Police’s broader campaign to reduce death rates on the emirate’s roads. Recall that the Dubai authorities set themselves the goal of bringing this figure to zero by 2020. In the period from January to August of this year, 26 thousand people who violated traffic rules were fined in the emirate.
According to Al Zafin, the Dubai traffic police is going to increase fines for pedestrians in those cases when they cross the road not on pedestrian crossings, do not use the bridge crossings over the road and special places designed to cross the roadway. “In the case when there are no crossings, no suspended pedestrian bridges, no traffic lights on the roadway, pedestrians will certainly not be fined. However, people should be more careful about traffic rules. Do not endanger either your life or the lives of others people, "said Al Zafin.
