{"id":24899,"date":"2020-09-22T14:59:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T10:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=24899"},"modified":"2020-09-22T15:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:06:20","slug":"29-traffic-accidents-reported-in-dubai-due-to-foggy-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/09\/22\/29-traffic-accidents-reported-in-dubai-due-to-foggy-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"29 traffic accidents reported in Dubai due to foggy weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twenty-nine traffic accidents were\nreported across Dubai from Sunday 12:00 a.m. till today (Tuesday) 9:00 a.m. due\nto the heavy fog that blanketed several areas of the emirate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colonel Jumaa bin Suwaidan, acting\ndirector of the General Department of Traffic at Dubai Police, urged motorists\nto keep a safe distance between cars and adjust their speed to the weather\nconditions. He also urged motorists to use low-beam lights and indicate clearly\nwhen changing lanes.&nbsp; \u201cAllow extra time\nfor your journey and check your planned route. It\u2019s also advisable to wait for\nthe fog to clear until visibility improves. &#8221; Col bin Suwaidan said <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that accidents happen\nduring bad weather conditions that cause low visibility tend to be more severe,\npointing out that Dubai Police did not record any serious accidents or\ninjuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>999<\/strong><br><br>Colonel Turki bin Faris, Director of the Command &amp; Control Centre at Dubai Police, said the centre receive 2034 emergency calls in the same period. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-nine traffic accidents were reported across Dubai from Sunday 12:00 a.m. till today (Tuesday) 9:00 a.m. due to the heavy fog that blanketed several areas of the emirate. Colonel Jumaa bin Suwaidan, acting director of the General Department of Traffic at Dubai Police, urged motorists to keep a safe distance between cars and adjust their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24902,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24899\/revisions\/24902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}