Driver runs over a man in RAK, ordered to pay Dhs200,000 blood money

Adnan Okasha, Staff Reporter

The Ras Al Khaimah Court of Appeal upheld a verdict that obliged a driver to pay blood money of Dhs200,000 for unintentionally causing the death of a truck driver.

Earlier, the Ras Al Khaimah Court of First Instance (traffic misdemeanors) suspended the 3-year-jail term issued against the driver for causing the death of truck driver, after he ran him over by his car.

It was said that the victim had stopped his truck and got off it, and walked to one of its tyres to check it, but unfortunately, he was run over by the defendant.

The court upheld obligation of the defendant to pay blood money to the victim's heirs.

The bill of indictment included 4 charges, the first is causing death of the victim, the second is failure to keep the vehicle while driving it in the section closest to the right edge of the road the direction of traffic.

The third is failure to abide by traffic rules, as he drove the vehicle on the road without taking the necessary precautions, which resulted in a traffic accident and death of the victim, and the fourth is tinting the windshield of the vehicle.

The accident reconstruction expert testified that the defendant had admitted that he had seen the warning triangle and that the truck was parked completely from a distance of 500 meters, but he continued to drive his car at the same speed.

He also indicated that the vehicle’s windshield was found tinted by 40 per cent, which hinders vision of the road.