KUWAIT: The General Traffic Department (GTD) continued its intensive campaigns targeting speeding violations in various governorates. Within 24 hours, the latest campaigns led to the arrest of six citizens and one Arab for driving at more than 150 kilometers per hour. All of them were referred to the traffic police station and their vehicles were impounded. A security source stated that highway patrol officers apprehended two citizens driving at 180 and 190 kilometers per hour, in addition to an Arab who was driving at 154 kilometers per hour. The source added that traffic officers arrested two citizens for engaging in car racing on the road, while the Jahra traffic officers apprehended two other citizens for driving at more than 170 kilometers per hour. The source urged motorists to comply with speed limit regulations in order to ensure their safety and that of other road users, and to avoid legal accountability.
By Munif Naif Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff
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