Establish preventing transferring passenger in unprepared vehicles    27/4/2009    The Director of the License Affairs of the General Directorate of Traffic Lt. Col. Khaled Rebiya Al Dosari assures the establish of implementing the decision of prohibit the transfer of passenger in vehicles that are not prepared from May, adding that this decision comes after granting the companies that transport workers via unlicensed car (six wheel) the opportunity more than once to correct their situation.   He said that the decision did not come from a vacuum, but came after an extensive study of a result of the increasing number of fatal accidents and serious injuries caused by the relocation of passenger transported by vehicles used to transport goods (six wheel) in the last three years, stressing that Article 80 of the penalties from traffic law No. (9) for the year 1979 provides that "Without prejudice to the measures in this law the punishment is imprisonment for not more than six months and a fine of not more than one hundred dinars, or both for anyone who committed an act of the following acts: (Use of the vehicle in other than the purpose set out)    The Lt. Col. Al Dosari said that the General Directorate of Traffic met with the contractors and institutions association that have a large number of employs has been given a deadline more than once as it had been agreed upon the implementation of the resolution since the beginning of this year and gave them a new deadline for those who uses this type of vehicles that are specified to transport goods to be replaced by buses equipped with passenger seats (saloon). Recalled that the Directorate of Training & Public Relation Affairs has prepared an extensive campaign to educate business owners of the risks of using such vehicles in transporting of passengers and have been designing and implementing many brochures and leaflets to increase awareness, as well as lectures in addition to the placement of advertisements in daily newspapers, radio and television.