KUWAIT: The traffic department at the interior ministry announced on Tuesday the installation of new smart mobile cameras on a number of key roads to ensure traffic safety and check offences, especially speeding. This came in a press conference on the sidelines of the 38th GCC Traffic Week under the slogan “Driving without a phone”, attended by interior ministry undersecretary for traffic and operations Maj Gen Yousef Al-Khaddah.
The event’s organizing committee said the new generation of mobile speed cameras were battery-powered and stationed at various locations to monitor traffic. The aim is to lessen traffic violations and ensure adherence to speed limits, it added. A new traffic law in Kuwait will come into effect on April 22 with either heftier fines, jail time or both for violators according to the severity of the violation.
Officials from the traffic department said traffic offenses dropped sharply in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year, ahead of applying the new law on April 22. The traffic department said the offense of running red lights offense has dropped by 55 percent, while speeding violations were down by 43 percent in the first three months of this year compared to the same period in 2024. Al-Khaddah assured traffic violations and fines will not be implemented retroactively. Fines in the new law and other penalties have been toughened severalfold in a bid to curb violations.
