17 / 12 / 2023

The traffic departments in the Public Security Directorate continued their efforts to provide a safe traffic environment and reduce traffic accidents and the resulting human and material losses.

The Traffic and highway Patrols Departments have strengthened their mobile automated monitoring patrols equipped with surveillance cameras and civilian vehicles equipped with radars to control speeds in locations where traffic accidents occur on roads in various governorates of the Kingdom.

These cameras recently monitored dangerous traffic violations that threaten the lives of road users, and are among the violations that resulted in the largest number of fatal accidents in previous years, the most important of which are: high speeds.

The traffic report on Public Security Radio AMEN FM this morning covered a number of fatal violations caught by the traffic patrols , the most prominent of which was the seizure of a vehicle driven at a speed of 190 km/h on a road with a maximum speed limit of 80 km/h in the Al-Quwaira - Aqaba area.

An unlicensed driver was also arrested driving on the desert road, and legal action was taken against him, while an unlicensed person who was Under the effect of alcoholic was caught driving a vehicle on the Irbid-Amman road, and legal action and the necessary legal and administrative procedures were taken against all.

It is worth noting that the mobile and fixed traffic control devices, speed control devices, radars and cameras that the Public Security Directorate implemented within its traffic plan have recently and effectively contributed to reducing many violations and providing protection for road users from dangerous traffic practices and violations committed by some drivers.

Supervisory patrols are conducted daily in the morning and evening periods, and are staffed by qualified cadres who monitor violations through surveillance cameras, document them so that they can be duly recorded and the citizen is notified by text message of the content of his violation, in addition to fixed cameras in a number of locations.