Selah al-Arab (Ajman) – General Command of Ajman Police launched a campaign «for bicycles safe driving» as an awareness initiative lasts for 6 months, in various areas of the emirate, especially times of the night, in order to reduce traffic accidents ratios.
Brigadier Sheikh Sultan Bin Abdullah Al Naomi, Director General of Ajman Police with reflective vest, acting, it is if for bicycles safe driving campaign began middle of this month for a period of 6 months.
The campaign aims to provide bicycle brakes front and rear wheels, and make sure the power to the front and rear lights, and providing them with posters phosphorous reflective light, and providing an alert to a «bell or horn», and put reflectors on the wheels of light.
He added that the campaign also aims to apply security and safety conditions, which abide by the rules of traffic, leaving a sufficient safety distance between the bike and the vehicle, and wear a helmet to the head during a bike ride in accordance with the standards and wear a sweater phosphorous, and to give a hand signal when turning left or right, and a commitment to the right side of River Road and Sir individually one after the other, may not rush to walk the winding or serious quickly.
He said the campaign will focus on industrial shelf, the area that is located by the Chinese market center, explaining that this campaign comes to coincide with the monitoring of a large number of traffic accidents during the past year, caused by bicycles; it was also seized large numbers of cyclists going in the opposite direction last year.
He pointed out that 2000 will be distributed reflective jacket phosphorescent color, and 2000 helmet for free, on bicycle users, a special category of Asian nationalities, because the physical potential may not enable them to buy jackets and helmets, and because they have caused the most in those accidents.