Women top list of traffic violators

The women have committed 1,820 violations in total.

Major-General Mohammed Saif Al Zafin, Director of the General Department of Traffic, confirmed that women have committed more traffic violations than men and speeding tops the list. The 10 women include seven UAE nationals and one each from India, Bangladesh and Syria.

According to Al Zafin, the Bangladeshi woman topped the list by committing 257 violations and accumulating fines totalling to Dh201,140. She has been wanted by the police for speeding while commuting to and from work. Her car will be seized for 1,837 days. The Syrian woman committed 288 violations garnering a fine of Dh168,900 and her car will be seized for 45 days. An Emirati woman who came in the third place has to pay Dh134,160 for committing 218 traffic violations, and her car will be seized for 15 days. The fourth woman, also with 218 violations, is supposed to pay Dh121,000.

Her car will be seized for 97 days while the fifth woman has to pay Dh119,000 for 183 violations with her car to be seized for 90 days. The sixth woman, an Indian, committed 148 traffic violations and has to pay Dh96,000. Her car will be seized for 15 days.

UAE women in the seventh and eighth places committed 122 and 139 violations, and they have to pay Dh841,000 and Dh84,000 respectively. The seventh woman’s car will be seized for 374 days.

The ninth and tenth women committed 128 and 129 violations respectively and they have to pay Dh80,000 each. Their cars will be seized for 127 and 15 days.

Al Zafin said that the women neither paid the fines nor have they undertaken to pay it in installments. Some of the women claimed that they had not committed the violations, Al Zafin added.

He stressed that the women will have to pay the fines to the traffic department.

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