Reflection on meeting

 

 

Date: Tuesday 7^th October, 2012

 

Venue: W104

 

Time: 11 15

 

The Head of Police: Khalid Al Zaabi

The chief of Road Accidents Department: Hamden Kareem

Mubarak Salem: Manger of Emirates Driving

Secretary of the head of police: Hamed Khalid

 

Topic: car accidents in the UAE :

a) Hamed Khalid  started the meeting with the number of car accidents; statistics of car accidents and their causes are shown in his histogram in 2011-2012and separated into 3 groups.

b) Than Hamden Kareem started on the causes of accidents that occurred in January to April and he was talking about the total number of car accidents being above 8,000 accidents.

1) Speeding and ignoring traffic rules.

2)poor car maintenance.

3) careless driving.

4)poor road maintenance.

c) An example of poor road maintenance danger was given by Khalid: “I was driving my car last Friday at 11:15pm near my home and there was a hole in the street which couldn`t be seen clearly at that moment and I almost lost the control but fortunately I was driving around 35Km/h”.

Another example was given by Hamed:” Our own family ‘driver tried to reach his destination on time by driving on the road shoulder, so he was caught by police and the car was impounded for 30 days with 6 black points and a 600 Dhs fine”.

He chairman of the meeting Khalid moved on to the results of accidents:” Our nation had lost a lot of future builders in these accidents who have already died.

d)   I introduced myself and then I started listing the solutions:

1-    Increase the number of awareness campaigns and do them in different languages.

2-     Increase the amount of fines.

3-    Rewards for ideal drivers which is a good motivation.

4-    Increase the number of police patrols so they can take  faster action.

5-    Increase the number of radars to reduce the space for speeding.

 

 

Individual contributions

1)Hamad he was good in introducing and directing the meeting.

2) Hamden Kareem  mentioned the causes of car accidents and he was perfect

in communication.

3)Khalid gave us examples of car accidents

4) I am Mubarak Salem. I concluded and I gave the solutions to reduce the car accidents.

 

 

In the end, all members were helpful and the conversation was excellent.

Minutes

 

Hamed Khalid opened the meeting with an introduction:  “Good morning gentlemen; in this meeting we are going to discuss  car accidents in Abu Dhabi in 2011-2012. In attendance we have Khalid Al Zaabi -The Head of Police- , Hamden Kareem – the chief of Road Accidents Department, Mubarak Salem – Manager of Emirates Driving Institute- and me, Hamed Khalid - the secretary of the head of police. First we will start with the number of car accidents with Hamden Kareem”.

 

Hamdan Kareem handed out some sheets:” Hello gentlemen, statistics of car accidents and their causes are shown in this histogram in 2011-2012 and separated into 3 groups. The first group is accidents that occurred in January to April. As you can see speeding and ignoring traffic rules are the major causes of accidents with total number above 8000 accidents. According to records, no accidents were caused from poor road quality. In the second group which was in the summer vacation, it was observed that most of the accidents were in the highway roads and they fall in 3 major points, speeding, poor car maintenance and poor road maintenance. In the last group Sept-Dec, the police patrols and Saaed records showed a lot of surprising facts; most of the accidents could be avoided if the drivers were obeying traffic rules”.

 

An example of poor road maintenance danger was given by Khalid: “I was driving my car last Friday at 11:00pm near my home and there was a hole in the street which couldn't be seen clearly at that moment and I almost lost  control but fortunately I was driving around 35Km/h”.

Another example was given by Hamed:” Our own family driver tried to reach his destination on time by driving on the road shoulder, so he was caught by police and the car was impounded for 30 days with 6 black points and a 600 Dhr fine.  

 

Several questions were asked by Mr. Hedley about these situations and why do people put their own lives in danger!

Hamden said:” a survey was done and the results were:

1-      46% said to not get late at work.

2-      29% said to avoid traffic.

3-      14% said they like to drive fast!

4-      11% others

 

Chairman of the meeting Khalid moved on to the results of accidents:” Our nation has lost a lot of future ‘builders in these accidents . In the second sheet you can have a look at the number of lost souls last year separated into 3 groups depending on their ages and the causes of death:

1-      A total of 124 persons passed away because of speeding; most were between 15 and 30.

2-      A total of 75 persons passed away because of poor car maintenance, mainly between 31-45.

3-      A total of 118 persons passed away because of careless driving especially between 15 and 30.

4-      A total of 102 persons passed away because of ignoring traffic rules.

5-      A total of 90 persons passed away because of poor road maintenance .

 

                        
     

              The main reason that I have arranged this meeting is to reduce the number of car accidents and to improve our society and provide a safe environment for other drivers.

 

 Mubarak Salem introduced himself and said:” We can’t imagine a happy life while a lot of families and victims are suffering in these situations. According to experts’ research, the points that I’m going to offer them now helped a lot to reduce accidents around the world. The first point is…

 

1-      Increase the number of awareness campaigns and do them in different languages.

2-       Increase the amount of fines .

3-      Rewards for ideal driving which is a good motivation.

4-      Increase the number of police patrols so they can take faster action.

5-      Increase the number of radars to reduce the space for speeding.

 

 

 

A 10 minutes discussion about these solutions and other suggestions was provided.

 

 

Khalid the chairman thanked the gentlemen for their time and said these solutions will be done soon and a survey is going to be done and they will discuss the results in the next meeting.

 

Everyone left the meeting room at 8:50.