(MENAFN- The Peninsula) By Sidi Mohamed | The Peninsula
Doha:The General Directorate of Traffic has warned youngsters against drifting and reckless driving otherwise the violation may lead to confiscation of vehicles for three month, an official at the General Directorate of Traffic at The Ministry of Interior said.
'The vehicles of the violators and stunt-drivers are seized in case of violating the law and this confiscation of vehicle is a maximum period of three months, the source added.
The punishment also included hefty fines which might reach up to QR3,000 and the cases of repeated violations are transferred to public prosecution, he added.
'In case the driver indulged in drifting destroys public properties, they must pay the cost of the loss occurred. For examples if the driver make a damage to the road, the Public Works Authority 'Ashghal is the body to take legal action against the said person and the General Directorate of Traffic will transfer his case to Ashghal to register a complaint in the court, he added.
The Investigation Section of the General Directorate of the Traffic strictly monitor such cases. People are cooperating with the department and the residents can send pictures of violators and the investigation section will follow them, the official added.
The problem and difficulties being faced by the section to control such reckless driving behavior is the fact that these stunt-drivers choose places which are far from the eyes of the police; they choose places like Salwa Road, Al Sailiya, and Airport road.
The official said that the people used to ask the department to introduce strict monitoring mechanism against such reckless drivers.
Earlier a source told The Peninsula that in case the drifting is practiced in residential areas which might expose people's life to danger, vehicle would be booked for 90 days and 'may be transferred to the public prosecution depending on the nature of the offence.
Many residents are complaining from this practice and say that 'the problem of stunt-drivers is that they even practice this violation near schools and anyone can see the skid marks of tires on the streets around the schools and this may attract students to imitate them. The punishment must be increased against those who are doing the drifting near of schools and in residential areas, said Jassem, a resident in Duhail.
Another resident also mentioned that the youngsters who were indulged in such practices choose places and times when no one could notice them.
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