Kuwait Traffic Officer Dies in Head-On Collision

sad to heard loss of law enforcement representatives.


people do violate many laws which go unnoticed.some of them drink behind my building,i have spotted many illegal businesses,many things that go unnoticed.and when they see cops they start panicking.

Because many cops quited for better careers

Loss of life is always very sad - it is much sadder for the poor guy who never broke driving rules in his life, going the opposite way driving according to the speed limit and he ends up going back home in a box... but that is the reality of Kuwait. Cant' really be sad for someone who had wasta to get his license,  decides to be suicidal by driving at 200kph and ends up upside down in an empty road do you?

All of us when we drive just 10 mins to work and back probably note around 3 or 4 violations by World standards, but apparently not according  to local law - tail gating at 120/140kph (criminal offence), people overtaking on the hard shoulder again at 120kph, drivers on their mobile phone (constant), cars going in the same direction while some smart driver goes from lane 3 (Fast lane) to the slow lane to overtake and then zoots past even if traffic in the fast lane is going at 120, drivers/trucks driving at 80kph on the middle lane as if the slow lane does not exist, SUV's driving over centre stips and pavements to overtake traffic going in the same direction.. no need to go on. To add insult to injury, i have seen 'police' men and women, and people in military uniforms do ALL the above, both in police cars and in their private ones.. 

Maybe some common people should suggest to the 'government'/ 'authorities' what to do as they seem totally oblivious and uncaring to the criminality of the driving on an daily (actually hourly) basis. Guess they won't do anything since there is no interest in anything, or pride in the uniform.

Police are just as guilty as everybody else!

Paul&Collette wrote:

If you read the papers today you will see that a Traffic Officer died in a head-on collision.  His friend, also an Officer is seriously injured.

The photographs show a wreckage of a vehicle which must have exceeded the speed limit.

I feel so sorry that another life has been taken because of speed and reckless driving. 

Coming to work today I purposely counted the number of mobile phone users without wearing seat belts.....see for yourself it is shocking!

Why are there no 'unmarked' Police cars in Kuwait?!

I propose counting the number of cops without seat-belts on.

i have even spotted them talking on cell phone while driving

SportsMan wrote:

Loss of life is always very sad - it is much sadder for the poor guy who never broke driving rules in his life, going the opposite way driving according to the speed limit and he ends up going back home in a box... but that is the reality of Kuwait. Cant' really be sad for someone who had wasta to get his license,  decides to be suicidal by driving at 200kph and ends up upside down in an empty road do you?

All of us when we drive just 10 mins to work and back probably note around 3 or 4 violations by World standards, but apparently not according  to local law - tail gating at 120/140kph (criminal offence), people overtaking on the hard shoulder again at 120kph, drivers on their mobile phone (constant), cars going in the same direction while some smart driver goes from lane 3 (Fast lane) to the slow lane to overtake and then zoots past even if traffic in the fast lane is going at 120, drivers/trucks driving at 80kph on the middle lane as if the slow lane does not exist, SUV's driving over centre stips and pavements to overtake traffic going in the same direction.. no need to go on. To add insult to injury, i have seen 'police' men and women, and people in military uniforms do ALL the above, both in police cars and in their private ones.. 

Maybe some common people should suggest to the 'government'/ 'authorities' what to do as they seem totally oblivious and uncaring to the criminality of the driving on an daily (actually hourly) basis. Guess they won't do anything since there is no interest in anything, or pride in the uniform.

I could not have said it better myself.

Simple answer but....at the same time complicated.  The "answer" to the problem of the 'typical' type of local driving is that....  This Is Kuwait.....plain and simple.  I've never been to Saudi (I've heard the driving attitude is similar there) but, I have been to several other GCC countries.  The local authorities would NOT tolerate this type of behavior.  Sure, wasta exists everywhere but, every time I've visited Bahrain, Dubai, etc..  locals will ask me "Where do you live?"  I would reply "Kuwait".  They usually either lay their index finger under their nose in the nearly universal sign of "stuck up" or they would tell me..."Kuwaitis are so spoiled and arrogant". Until Kuwaitis are collectively shown the light, this attitude will prevail.  On the flipside, it's not their collective fault, it just is what it is.