Muscat: The Royal Oman Police (ROP) in a tweet has denied rumours about raising of traffic fines.
Following Oman’s raising of gasoline prices last week, rumours about a possible increase in traffic fines have gone viral on social media in the past two days.
Amendments to the traffic law that were approved by the Council of Ministers last year await the final approval from Oman’s ruler Sultan Qaboos.
The amendments will include stiff penalties and increased traffic fines to ensure road safety and to reduce the injuries and death on roads.
More than three million traffic fines are registered every year, according to figures made available by the authorities.
Over-speeding and not wearing a seat belt are top traffic fines collected.
Oman has registered a 14.9 per cent dip in road accidents in 2015, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
There were 5,254 accidents recorded in 2015, down from 6,171 road accidents in 2014.
618 people died in car accidents in 2015, down from 760 fatalities in 2014.
Traffic awareness campaigns and more speed radars have contributed to the drop in the number of road accidents.
