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Traffic Police Act 3 of the Minnistry of Interior requires the registration of your vehicle        Importation of cars pre-dating 2004 prohibited        Register your vehicle: registration information here        Know your fine directly by accessing the "fines" link        Large vehicles prohibited from entering city centers        Vehicle movement prohibited withour registration tags        Use of small motor-bikes prohibited        Use of right-handed driver side cars prohibited

Traffic Advices

Advices and directions for vehicles drivers
* Give the way to the following vehicles( ambulance –extinguisher-police) for facilitate their duties by using the right side of the road or stop if the situation demand that, and through doing this you will contribute in saving people lives.
* You have not used the big sound devices or multi notes that caused noisy for other road users especially inside inhabitant areas or near hospitals and schools.      * Stop your vehicle in particular parks, because the miss parking leads to confuse the traffic movement .Also you have not allowed to stop on sidewalk or across area that specified to walkers or on a bridges or in the middle of the road.           * For emergency or necessity stopping especially in the night driving, you must open the stop signals and warning lights. It should be noted here the important of using phosphorous triangle behind your breaking down vehicle and try drag it away of the road as soon as possible.
Advices for walkers
* You must keep walking on sidewalk and do not inter the road.                *You must keep walking on sidewalk and do not inter the road.             *You must not allow children to play in the main road.                    *You must not allow children to play in the main road.                  *You must not allow children to play in the main road.
*You must not group in the sidewalk in away that hider the movement on sidewalk which cause dangerous accidents and disturb other walkers.
*You must not group in the sidewalk in away that hider the movement on sidewalk which cause dangerous accidents and disturb other walkers.
*You must not carry any thing throughout your walking in away cause accidents.
*You must keep walking in sidewalk and looking attentively to the road movement.
*You must not gather around accident cause further accidents and hinder the traffic movement.
*You must keep crossing from the determine cross-area, and obey the traffic men signals and directions.
*You must turn on firstly right, left to make sure of road emptiness and be ware of opposite direction.
Important wills for the road accidents prevention
Dear driver
*You have to be away of any psychological passivity and keep concentrate, focus toward road only and do not occupy yourself by taking, reading, and thinking or using your cell phone or eating.
* You have to stop driving while you feel tired, nervous or illness.
* Do not drive while you have drug materials or alcoholic.
* Keep driving on the right side of the road and look in mirrors consequently to be aware of rear traffic movement and do not throw any thing outside your vehicle during driving.
* Use the proper light signals that indicate the direction of turning vehicle before suitable distance in order to inform other drivers.
* You must notice before set up back movement or head starting or turning to other side.
* You must not use the highlight or spotlight that cause unclear vision for other road users and lead to dangerous events.
* Keep convenient distance between you and the vehicle in front of you and avoid sudden stop.
* Do not drive in excessive speed, because it represents the main factor for all accidents and you have to follow the determined legal speed according to traffic law. , Therefore, with your avoiding such accidents you will keep yourself apart of sorrowful accidents which lead to human being, and material looses.
Basic Rules of Safety Passing
* The passing must be from the left side except condition of the preceding vehicle that intends to turn from the left side.
* Do not pass the preceding vehicle while it trays to pass other cars in front of it, therefore, you have to wait while this operation end and then you can set up passing safely.
* Passing is possible when the road was almost straight and there isn't any turning curved roads that prevent plain vision.
* You must use signal of passing preceding vehicle at daytimes and using the light signals that indicate direction movement at night.
* Do not passing near traffic lights or near cross-areas.
Driving in Bad Air Conditions
(Rains, fug)
* Do not drive more than 15Km-houre in raining or fuggy days.
* Do not pass vehicles under above conditions.
* Avoid using sudden break while the road was wetted.
* Use your front and rear lights without using highlights plus carefully attention to general road status.
Advices for Riders of Vehicle and Public Bus.
* Do not approach bus or ride or step down while it being moving.
* Do not stand inside the bus, because standing will exposed you to fall and pain.
* Do not bring parts of your body outside bus window, you might be dropped or hit by other vehicles and do not throw any things that affect others outside the bus.
* Do not stand or lean on a bus door handle during bus movement.
* Give help to handicapped, children, and old people inside bus.
* Do not get down from the front door and do not cross in front of the bus in the way that hinders the bus driver vision.
* For the bus drivers, you have to stop in safety places away of turning roads, intersections; and traffic light. You are not allowed to drop the rider in these places especially in highways or randomly stopping.
Wills for Motorcyclist
Dear Driver
* You must wear protective helmet and tide it properly before set up driving; you are also have to wear the convenient uniform that helps you in easy, and safety driving.
* Be ware of overmuch speed and be away of traffic jam.
* Keep driving on the right side of the road and avoid competitive driving to pass other vehicles.
* Be ware of sudden stop, and don’t use hand break at once.
* Be ware of what facing you in the road.
* Provide your motorcycle front screen that protects you from air and dusts.
* Do not touch any close vehicle to you, because this action will head to dangers.
* Do not practice any air sports aerobatics actions that are more dangerous. You have to put in your consideration that motorcycles are mainly found for transporting not amusement purposes in the public roads.

Usefull Information

The First Act...
The First Number of the World ...
The History of Traffic ...

 

Automobile Down The Ages


As wheel got invented in the Mesopotamian Civilization, our own civilization was set to motion, for it wheeled our imaginations.

In 1645 a sort of cycle was invented by Jean Theson but it had no Brakes, Pedal or Steering and needed feet motion. Laufmachine cycle was then created by Karl Von (1817). Soon this was made into the regal Dandy Horse by Dennis Johnson. In 1839 the proper cycle was shaped by K. Macmillan. It had iron wheels and a wooden frame. The manifestation of automobile horse-power was taught in 1769 by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot, who invented the first 'Steam Truck' which the French army thought was useful.

Then after, automobiles enveloped our life and culture. But the notion called 'accident' endangered our future. The first accident of the Steam Truck in 1771 was the eye opener.

During 1899 the first fatal accident took place with the death of a driver. Then onward, the world coined several road safety measures. Still, the present scenario is such that 5 lakh people are killed and millions are injured all over the world every year in road accidents.

This accident menace makes our children an endangered species of the future. So let us teach our children, the Road Safety Culture. Today's informed child only can ensure a safe future.

The First Number of the World

The world's first car number plates were issued by the French police in 1893.

The First Act

 

The Locomotives and Highway Act was the first piece of British motoring legislation. This was also known as the Red Flag Act of 1865. The act required three persons in attendance one to steer, one to stoke and one to walk 60 yards ahead with a red flag to warn the oncoming traffic.

The First Traffic Light of the World

The World's first traffic lights were installed in Detroit, USA in 1919. The first traffic lights in Britain were installed in Wolverhampton during 1928. However, they did not come to London till 1932.

The First Petrol Pump

The first petrol pump was installed in USA in 1906.

The First Accident

In 1771 the first accident involving a motor vehicle took place in Paris when Cugnot's steam tractor hit a low wall in the grounds of the Paris arsenal.

Pedestrian Crossing

The pedestrian crossing were instituted in Britain in 1934. The roads were marked by dotted lines. On the pavement there were striped Belisha beacon light poles named after Britain's Minister of Transport L. Hore-Belisha. The Zebra crossing with black and white stripes was developed after the second world war.

First Traffic Police Woman

Police women were used for traffic control duties for the first time in Paris in 1964. In Delhi we introduced women traffic police in 1989.

First Fatal Car Accident
The first motor-car accident in Britain resulting in the death of the driver occurred in Grove Hill, Harrow-on-the Hill, London, on 25th February 1899.
Dusty Road to Tar Surface

In 1902 Tar was first used on a Macadam surface to prevent dust in Monte Carlo. It was the idea of Dr. Guglielminetti, a Swiss. At first the tar was brushed in cold, but soon it was applied hot.

First Box Junction

Box junctions, marked with yellow cross-hatching, were introduced in London during 1964. The aim was to prevent traffic blocking junctions when it could not proceed and this was successful.

The Motor Car Act

The Motor Car Act of Britain came into force on 1st January 1904. It required that all cars be registered and carry a number plate, and all motorists to have a driving licence. But there was no driving test to pass and the licence was obtained by filing up a form and paying the fee at a post office. The act made dangerous driving an indictable offence.

First Man to be Challaned

In 1895 John Henry Knight was convicted and fined for using a motor-tricycle on the highway. He was probably the first motorist to appear in court.

Translation by Dr. Mohammed M. Tahir

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