Part of Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai was closed to traffic temporarily on Monday evening to allow a police helicopter to rescue a person injured in a road accident.
Online video shows the aircraft landing on a deserted stretch of the usually busy road in the Jumeirah Lakes Towers area. The patient is put on a stretcher and carried to the helicopter. It lifts off shortly afterwards to carry its injured passenger to hospital.
A Dubai resident who recorded the rescue said the operation began at about 7.20pm, when the road was sealed off for a matter of minutes.
"The road was closed for 10 to 15 minutes, not much, and then the road was reopened for cars and motorbikes," said Kanika Lamba, 24, a digital marketing manager.