Careem’s Top Five Tips For Road Safety In The UAE

Careem, the region’s leadinng ride-booking app, partners with RoadSafetyUAE and offers its top five road safety tips compiled by its expert team, as part of the car service’s continual drive to promote road safety throughout the UAE. The tips help motorists freshen up on the basics when it comes to being safe and sound on the road. It’s also great for newbies to the region and it sheds a light on some of the new traffic violations that came into effect in July 2017. Careem and its Captains have the ability to ‘lead by example’, and they will do exactly that! As a result, the Captains’ proper conduct with regards to the 5 selected road safety tips will encourage other motorists and passengers to replicate this. Careem wants to demonstrate thought leadership but also behavior leadership!

1. Don’t Speed

The reality is that we observe speeding daily and what we know but don’t always remember is that speeding kills!

2. Don’t overtake, lane swerve and tailgate

The vehicle in front might be going slower than necessary, nevertheless there’s no need to transform your car into a F1 race car to overtake. Leave the speeding to the F1 racers.

3. Always wear seatbelts and makes sure customers do to!

First things first ‘ Buckle up! The seat belt is the first line of defense in any vehicular accident, it is designed to minimize the force of any secondary impact by keeping the passenger in a fixed position.

4. Don’t use their phones while driving and neither should you!

Using mobile phones is a significant cause of accidents and fatalities on the UAE roads. According to RoadSafetyUAE, ‘Texting and Driving’ became one of the main killers on the world’s road and drivers who use mobile phones while driving, presented greater impairment than intoxicated drivers!

5. DO exercise child safety

It is essential when driving with young children to ensure their safety, children under four years old must be driven in a fixed car seat and any child under the age of ten or shorter than 145cm should always be sat in the back seats of a vehicle.