30 New Smart Radars on Sharjah Roads
- Sharjah Police have installed 30 new smart road radars on 30th May, 2017
- The new radar units have been installed on five key roads — Maliha, Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed, Emirates, Al Ittihad and Sharjah-Al Dhaid roads, all of which, witness multiple traffic accidents
- The radars are meant to primarily target speeding motorists and aggressive tailgaters, but can also track a long list of driving transgressions
- The radars are programmed to watch traffic from both sides of the road and catch more than one violation at the same time in either direction
- Traffic violations that are caught in UAE include vehicles going slower than the minimum speed, vehicles not leaving enough distance between other vehicles, heavy vehicles not abiding by their designated lanes, heavy vehicles that are on the road outside their designated timings and vehicles driving on the hard shoulder
- The new smart radars in Sharjah are fitted with 3G technology that instantly sends data such as licence plate numbers directly to the traffic department
- The introduction of the radars is a part of Sharjah Police’ Internal Accelerators programme with an aim towards decreasing traffic accidents, to realise the UAE’s National Agenda 2021
- There were five deaths which happened on the five roads on which the radars have been installed, just within the first five months of 2017, making the need for these radars more imperative
- Smart radars which perform similar functions to the new radars in Sharjah have already been implemented by the Dubai Police and Abu Dhabi Police in the respective emirates
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