Yarmouk University students launch awareness campaign to reduce traffic accidents

AMMAN — A group of students from Irbid’s Yarmouk University have launched a campaign to reduce the number of traffic-related deaths and injuries. 

Called “Darbak Amen” ( in English “your path is safe”), the campaign seeks to achieve its objectives through demanding stricter sanctions to be imposed on some first-class violations, including non-compliance with traffic signs, driving intoxicated and driving in the opposite direction of traffic which directly affect the lives of people.

The campaign, organised under the under the umbrella of the university’s deanship of student affairs, also calls for activating the traffic points system, which requires legal sanctions for those whose violations exceed a set of traffic rules violation points, organisers said in a statement to The Jordan Times.

“In Jordan, we hear, almost every day, about an accident or crash. Most of the victims of such accidents are our own beloved sons and daughters between dead and wounded. Our streets have become a scene of panic and traffic calamities that take the lives of the people who lived with us and left us behind in pain,” the statement said. 

Organisers cited “shocking” figures by the Jordan Traffic Institute on number of road accidents which reached 10,446 in 2017, causing deaths and injuries of more than 700 people. “Can you imagine that there is an accident every 50 minutes in Jordan? This result in a human injury and every two hours there is a car run over in Jordan.”

“As this campaign carries the human values, it did not aim to increase the financial burden incurred by citizens, but strongly aimed to encourage drivers and everyone who goes to the streets to pay more attention to traffic rules to protect their lives.”