Aiming to minimise the number of road-traffic accidents and violations within a year, the Ministry of Interior recently launched a traffic safety awareness campaign, recently.
The first phase of the campaign — ‘Zero Accident, Zero Violation’ — brought in some 275 new drivers for a traffic safety training session at the Traffic Department.
The campaign is organised by Al Million taxi company in association with General Directorate of Traffic. As a first phase of the campaign, a traffic safety training session on common traffic mistakes for around 275 new drivers from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Kenya, who will be joining the fleets of company soon.
“Traffic safety is not only the responsibility of the Traffic Department, but also a joint responsibility between the department and general public whether they are drivers or passengers or pedestrians. The Traffic Department is putting maximum efforts for making our roads safer and the general public have to cooperate and support the activities, efforts and initiatives of the department for ensuring safety on our roads,” said Lt. Abdul Wahid Ghareeb Al Anzi, traffic awareness officer from the Traffic Awareness and Media Department under the General Directorate of the Traffic.
