Given this country’s love affair with fast cars and its high traffic-fatality rate, road safety is a vital issue. However, opinion is divided over the way to tackle it.
Very often, the discussion turns to vehicle speed. While it is true that speeding is not in itself a killer, it does severely restrict a driver’s response time and it increases the impact, and the likelihood of fatality, in the case of an accident.
We asked 5,000 users of the TaskSpotting app their attitudes towards speeding, and the UAE’s policy of having a buffer on some roads that allows drivers to exceed the signed limit by up to 20 kph.
TaskSpotting describes itself as the region’s only advocate marketing platform and pitches our questions to its app community who typically engage with brands to create content, spread awareness and share feedback.
The survey results revealed strong support for the buffer, with two-thirds of respondents opposing its abolition. Respondents were split almost evenly on whether maximum speed limits should be reduced, even though 64 per cent of users agreed that lowering limits would help reduce accidents.
