Syed Hussein Al -Qassab
42 lectures that have benefited more than two thousand delivery bikes within two years
Book 918 bikes to deliver requests that violated the law during the years 2023 and 2024
The Minister of Interior, Lieutenant General Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, revealed that 2781 accidents for drivers of delivery bikes during the year 2023, which resulted in 4 deaths, while 3,387 accidents occurred during the year 2024, which resulted in 7 deaths, before it was announced that efforts to create a special license for applicants delivered vehicles were announced.
In response to a question submitted by a member of the Shura Council, Dr. Ali Al -Haddad, on the ministry’s procedures related to the drivers of delivery bikes, the statistics submitted to traffic accidents for automatic bikes of all kinds -except for the accidents that insurance companies start through the traffic application -indicated, indicating that the deaths that occurred in 2023 were two of them as a result of the accident, and two victims They have, while deaths in 2024, five of them were caused by the accident, and two victims.
The Minister of the Interior pointed out that the ministry seeks, in coordination with other competent authorities, to work within an initiative to create a special license for applicants to deliver applications, for the purpose of organizing this group of vehicle drivers, and setting controls that can achieve more commitment, whether at the same license or controlling public behavior by them.
He stressed the law imposing on any driver to deliver violating requests, as during the 2023 and 2024 years, 918 automatic bikes were seized to deliver applications, as a result of their violation of traffic rules, as the Ministry of Interior published a periodical of these seizures through the media and social media.
He stressed that the Ministry of Interior is continuing to control all the violations issued by this category that affect the safety of other road users or expose them to danger, indicating that the ministry seeks through its legal mechanisms to control their behavior during the use of the road to be within the proper and safe framework for them and others.
He explained that the General Traffic Department is constantly completing campaigns, programs and traffic lectures awareness of automated bicycles and workers in the field of delivery of requests in more than one language with the aim of raising the level of awareness of the Traffic Law, regulations and rules that reduce accidents and traffic violations, and these campaigns, programs and educational lectures come within the Ride Safe campaign.
The Minister of the Interior stated that cooperation companies are taking place with the delivery companies to cover the largest possible number of applicants to deliver applications, as the number of awareness lectures for this category during the two years 2023 and 2024 more than 42 lectures benefited more than 2003, a driver of a request to deliver requests.
