To reduce the risk of traffic accidents within the urban orbit, whose first emitted is excessive speed and lack of respect for the traffic law, the Moroccan government acquired 550 modern radars for light signals, installed in the streets of many cities.
It is related to a new generation of modern radars, which monitors violators of drivers who do not respect traffic lights, and who exceed the legal speed..
In the same context, the National Road Safety Agency (Nara), officially, launched the process of inspection and automatic monitoring of the violations of the Traffic Law.
Modern radars are characterized by advanced technical and functional characteristics, as it managed to monitor violations: exceeding legal speed, lack of respect for red light, cutting the connected line, and walking on the prohibited corridors.
These new generation radars also allow more than one vehicle to monitor at the same time, which may number to 24.
In this regard, Bouazza Al -Kharti, President of the National University of Consumer Protection, said that "these radars were installed to reduce traffic accidents, so that it came as a result of studies devoted to traffic accident sites in the Kingdom.".
Al -Kharti highlighted, in a statement to the electronic newspaper Hespress, that "the sites in which these radars were installed were selected on the basis of the number of accidents in which they occurred, especially the incidents that occurred as a result of the lack of respect for traffic lights.".
The same official stressed that "the new radars raises the problem of respecting the privacy of drivers, especially with regard to law 08-09 associated with the protection of personal data, as it is not possible to accept the depiction of drivers and accompanying them and display pictures in front of those responsible for the radars", highlighting that "modern radars cannotOn its own, it contributes to reducing traffic accidents, because it is about education, driving method and road quality..
