Second youth held in minister's death
By somwerNdmiddle •
"In the wake of the accident, many Qatari nationals have expressed their deep concern over the rash driving of the youth in the country". Why only now they thought of this?
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=288792...
I neither a victim of reckless driving of a young man the other night while i was already fully stopped while waiting turn to the round about. i was being sandwiched of a pick up who bumped me and my car forcely reached the hummer in front of mine due to strong impact.
There are really people who stays to be hard headed......
sad anniversary
Gypsy they can only start learning when the perception and attitude of the authorities towards this menace changes.
May be the lost of a high profile personality like the late Sheik Faisal Minister of Trade might just be the wakeup call.
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HE WHO DARES WINS
Its all about attitude..
True Story ...
An Arab doctor friend wanted to buy his son a car for his seventeenth birthday. He visited the GM showroom and spoke to salesman about a Lumina. There was the standard Lumina and the SS (V8 Engine, 5.7Ltr)
I advised him to buy the standard because the SS was too powerful for a novice.
His son insisted on the SS and bought it. Two eeks later the boy was killed in an accident on the Riyadh highway :(
they just don't seem to get it at all. I mean they still, in 2009, don't require back seat passengers to wear a seatbelt! It's like they have their eyes closed, their fingers stuck in their ears and they are saying "LA LA LA I can't hear you!" Total Denial
I just can't relate to the attitude Brit. If every family in Canada lost someone to reckless driving there would be massive campaigns and you'd see the changes...but here....
course and the instructor asked us what the stopping distance at 80K was. The french guy next to me said about 100 metres, the Qatari 5 metres and the Indian 2 metres!!
I asked the Qatari and the Indian what cars they drove and they said good ones with good brakes....
You are right about families losing someone through reckless driving. In Saudi , they had an awareness campaign with photographs of not just deaths , but the number of injuries caused and the total costs inflicted on the medical services. The figures were in the billions.
a few years ago my husband was invited to be involved with the traffic awareness campaign of that year. What he learned is that they love to make slogans, signs, get their picture in the paper etc (public relations tactics), but as far as really doing something about it, ie implementing laws or enforcing laws ALREADY on the books, they can't be bothered. Once again its the mentality of doing things "for show".
If what Gypsy said is true that there is NOT a Qatari family who hasn't lost someone to reckless driving, then what about us, the expatriates? Doesn't it mean that if we stay here long enough, sooner or later we'll be one of the statistic?
of Bahrains' young son was killed in a car accident.Has the standard of driving improved cos of the indident.....Nope, its still as bad as ever, and it seems to be getting worse.
Just the other day, a qatari man was killed due to speeding as he came from over the causeway.
Every day, I'm reading about fatalities on the roads, always due to speeding.
Maybe one day, when everybody is dead, the roads will be safe.
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I think you have me confused with someone who gives a sh1t.
let's just hope that this will be a wake up call for the authorities to REALLY DO SOMETHING against harsh driving as NOTHING REALLY has changed since new traffic rules were so-called ENFORCED from my own point of view as one of many who drive everyday in these dangerous doha roads.
It's true that youths everywh, where drive recklessly, that's why there are laws and things to try and stop it. Hopefully here similar measures will be brought in.
There's not a Qatari family in Doha who hasn't lost someone to reckless driving. I wonder how long till they learn.
Whether the authority realizes it or not, I believe the country is already suffering from the Broken Glass Syndrome. This Broken Glass Syndrome theory said that if you allow one window in a building to remain unfixed, soon the rest of the windows will be broken (vandalized) too.
MD,
that's true!
but with all the fake filtered happy tone local press and the wonderful propaganda campaigns we watch in CNN and BBC, those who haven’t been here are distracted away from the sad underdeveloped reality. Sad because there is so much money being freely poured in to this nation but so little brains to manage it!
lusitano, you say it. I don't have to remind you that the UN classifies Arabian Gulf Governments as "low expertise".
What is sad is that the authorities' measures are merely reactive and very weak. That is why improvement in this country in certain areas is non existent!
Another thing, if you do drive according to the law here, you are almost putting yourself in jeopardy, as most people on the road are not adhering to the laws.
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Brit...you have a point, but also as deedee and bint_maldeni said, the concern probably won't last. I guess living here has made me a bit of a pessimist, good thing I'm married to an optimist!
Seriously though, maybe this tragic accident will shed some needed light on traffic fatalities, but it will take a while to change the way a country drives. It needs ENFORCEMENT, ENFORCEMENT, ENFORCEMENT....
Motherhood...The hardest job you'll ever love! : )
The burden shouldnt only be the kids who they say drive rashly. I see parents or older locals that drive insanely. Staying in the fast lane, then wanting to turn right in a roundabout. Just last night, a landcruiser knicked another car near immigration roundabout and sent it on a turtle turn. For everyone's safety, whether local or expat, we have to drive responsibly. No one has to wait for another death to learn lessons.
its has been discussed and in the papers bcz a member of the royal family has died in the incident, but there's so much more accidents like this where middle class citizens dies and no one was arrested....
when will we ever learn :(
I guess I'm cynical, because I think that within a week they will be discussing something else.
Its never too late. If this incident sparks people into action, then why not ?
It's a little late for that don't you think. So it takes killing a member of the royal family for this country to wake up and be concerned about kids driving. That is sad. What about all the other people who have died? And for goodness sakes strap all the babies in carseats so they will be safe.
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this is sad. and i think he might be in jail for a long time...
this is the problem growin up with the baby sitter and having 3 cars at the age of 16 with pockets full of digits! this way they grow up out of control. If only they cans end their drivers & kadamas to attend their classes or jobs, i think they'd do that as well...
but i must say that some locals are really hard working and responsible.
Firstly, most "youth" all over the world drive rashly.. I know I used to.
Secondly, It sometimes takes an incident of note for the authorities to actually start taking action. Perhaps this was that watershed moment ..
I agree though that parents have to be more responsible also.