MUSCAT: Amid warnings of penalties and risks concerned in crossing of flooded wadis, violations on this regard proceed unabated.
With some components of Oman receiving heavy rains following the condensation of clouds over Hajjar Mountains, the Royal Oman Police (ROP) has already needed to take motion in opposition to a citizen.
In keeping with the police, the citizen was arrested by the Al Dhahirah Governorate Police Command for intentionally crossing an overflowing wadi.
“The residents who risked crossing the Wadi stream together with his automobile endangered his personal life and the lives of different passengers with him”, the police mentioned, confirming authorized process in opposition to the responsible.
Crossing of wadis is a punishable offence below Article 49 of the Site visitors Regulation. Crossing wadis is an offence punishable by a hefty superb and a jail sentence. It places your life and the lives of others in peril. Please watch out whereas driving particularly with the operating wadis.
“The Regulation stipulates that any one that deliberately crosses the wadis in such a approach as to hazard his life or the lifetime of different passengers with him or others,’ shall be liable to imprisonment for a time period not exceeding three months and a superb not exceeding RO 500.”
Whereas expressing concern, an ROP official mentioned that regardless of the deployment of patrols and rescue groups in areas near wadis by ROP and Public Authority for Civil and Ambulance, folks don’t heed to the warnings and cross wadis.
Then again, the Capital Market Authority issued a warning earlier, calling on residents, residents, property homeowners, and homeowners of business institutions and retailers to stick to safety and security directions throughout rain and valleys in a approach that preserves their security and the security of their properties.
The authority burdened that working to comply with the safety and security directions may have a major impression in mitigating the implications of the property harm it causes and limiting losses which will fall on people and establishments.
The authority confirms that the unified automobile insurance coverage coverage within the complete insurance coverage protection gives protection for damages attributable to disasters.
Nonetheless, it requires the holder of the doc to take all cheap precautions to make sure the security of the automobile and to not threat crossing the valleys and to comply with the directions of the Royal Oman Police.
“Deliberate crossing of the valleys and failure to comply with the directions of the police could result in the denial of the suitable of the policyholder from compensation within the occasion that it’s confirmed that the harm to the automobile resulted from a deliberate act dedicated by its driver”, it mentioned.
