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.