Amman: The Public Security Department (PSD) said that controlling violations using cameras or radars is one of the aspects of electronic or automated surveillance applied in Jordan and most countries of the world, with the aim of reducing the spread of dangerous violations, most notably high speeds and phone use, which has become a habit for many people while driving.
In a statement on Sunday, the PSD added, “We investigate daily accidents that occur on the roads, in which children, men, women, and dear families are killed. Most of them are painful accidents that occur because of a call or the use of a phone that could have been postponed or even rejected, in an offense that we insist on repeating daily, as if we refuse to take the necessary precautions.
“No call is more important than a human life, and all violations and the penalties they entail, remain insignificant compared to the life of a family member we may lose as a result of haste, recklessness, or a call that can be postponed,” the PSD statement
added.
“This makes us more determined to confront these dangerous violations and put strict control over them, as it is a responsibility and a trust to save lives and souls, and we have no purpose behind it except to fulfill our duties before God and the nation, and we have pledged our lives for the sake of the country and its people,” the statement explained.
In order to emphasize transparency, the PSD opened its doors to receive all complaints, inquiries, and observations on its WhatsApp number (0770999030), in order to review any violations, and take the necessary measures to correct them if they proved to be incorrect.
The PSD explained that a small number of violations have already been corrected, while hundreds of very serious and documented violations were fatal accidents that threatened innocent people. In such cases, the PSD said that it finds it necessary to point out a number of facts and information related to last year, where a death occurred every 15 hours and 40 minutes, as an arithmetic ave
rage.
As for this year, the PSD added that deaths have decreased since the start of the electronic surveillance at the beginning of this year, by about 20 percent, and about 77 fewer deaths in the first six months of this year, compared to the same period last year.
The PSD said that there are traffic studies to track driving styles and causes of accidents, which concluded that at least 78 percent of accidents are caused by cell phone use while driving, while 80 percent of crashes are caused by drivers who lost their attention in the last three seconds before the accident.
It added out that looking at the phone for 5 seconds, at a speed of 90 km / h, is equivalent to driving blindly “without looking” for a distance of more than the length of a football field, while the study shows that the chance of a traffic accident doubles 5 times, when talking on the phone, even if it is through external headphones.
According to the PSD statement, “There is a lot that can be said and done to save lives and property, a
nd the first thing is to get out of the debate about a small number of violations that can be corrected, and start building a sound traffic culture with which we save hundreds of lives annually, so that we and those we love reach our destinations safely.”
Source: Jordan News Agency