Three people have already died on Dubai’s roads in the first three days of Ramadan.
The Fajr prayer commences and the faststarts at around 4.30am and Maghrib, the prayer that marks Iftar, the breaking of the fast, takes place at around 6.50pm – so fasting for something a little over fourteen hours a day
The fast means that nothing may pass your lips, when the ambient temperature’s well into the mid forties (that’s 110F ), a long, long time and it’s debilitating – witha cumulative effect on people’s systems. A road full of tired, distracted and physically weakened drivers means that everyone has a huge additional duty of care – not only those fasting, but those who are not but who could give their fellow drivers a little more leeway than usual.
The RTA have taken a lot of action to improve safety but there are still weekly reoorts of speeding and dangerous drivers and yet more road deaths. Is it too much to expect that a time of spirtitual reflection might also be a time to reassess driving habits so that the mosques are not filled with mourners.
