Traffic campaign targets double-parking, speeding violations

AMMAN – The authorities on Thursday launched an intensified traffic campaign to register any violations hindering traffic movement, according to a Public Security Department (PSD) statement.

The crackdown, led by the Central Traffic Department, especially focuses on double-parking near stores and places of worship, in addition to other negative practices that threaten the lives of motorists and pedestrians, the statement said.

The traffic department will cooperate with all security departments and stations around the Kingdom using full manpower. 

Fines will be issued against violators and their vehicles will be towed away and impounded. 

Motorists will then be required to pay vehicle transfer and impound fees, in addition to the traffic ticket.

The campaign is also focusing other violations, such as speeding, wrongful overtaking and using the mobile phone while driving.

The PSD urged motorists to abide by traffic rules and ethics to ensure road safety and to ease traffic flow. 

It also called on the public to cooperate with its personnel in implementing the law and preventing violations that could threaten peoples’ lives, according to the statement.

By the end of July 2015, 72,290 traffic accidents were recorded in the Kingdom, resulting in 338 deaths and 6,102 injuries, according to Public Security Department figures.

Around 8 per cent of the 1.42 million vehicles registered in the Kingdom are involved in causing traffic accidents each year, Jordan Insurance Federation President Ali Wazani said in previous remarks to The Jordan Times.

Wazani noted that the number of cars involved in accidents is around 114,000 on a yearly basis.