What are the no-overtaking places on Dubai roads ?

There are no overtaking places while driving in some areas such as
- Invisible heights and acute curves
- Slippery roads, circular squares, near pedestrian crossings, schools, hospitals, gardens, and emergency vehicle lanes

- Road turns, bridges, and tunnels
- All places in which overtaking is prohibited by using traffic signs or marks

Notes

Authority:RTA
Tag: driving-log

Location

dubai

What are the no-overtaking places on roads?

No-overtaking places that every driver should know while driving in Dubai

It is the exceeding of a vehicle or an obstacle on the road whether movable or fixed while driving the vehicle at certain places and according to definite conditions. A driver can not overtake his vehicle to go faster than other vehicles, he has to follow some traffic rules and regulations before overtaking his vehicle. There are no overtaking places while driving in some areas such as

Invisible heights and acute curves

Slippery roads, circular squares, near pedestrian crossings, schools, hospitals, gardens, and emergency vehicle lanes

Road turns, bridges, and tunnels

All places in which overtaking is prohibited by using traffic signs or marks

No overtaking cases

No overtaking of passenger buses allocated for transport of students when stopped in residential areas. Besides when weather changes occur while driving your vision on road will be less such as fog or dust in this condition you do not try overtaking another vehicle. As well as you do not try to overtake police cars, internal security forces, or ambulances, and also when other vehicles use alert and warning devices to indicate emergency cases you never try to overtake them, you have to give a way to them. Some drivers also give a signal to other road users that do not overtake in such conditions you do not try to overtake. and also never try to overtake when the front vehicle is overtaking another vehicle.

Rules and ethics of overtaking

The driver of a vehicle that transports a load and cannot be overtaken because of road situations and traffic motion, has to reduce the speed of his vehicle and exit as necessary as possible to the road shoulder to give way to vehicles behind to overtake it safely. Besides, it is prohibited to increase the speed of his vehicle when another vehicle overtakes his vehicle, and he has to enable others to make this overtaking safely.

What is the vehicle overtaking tips?

Use the right-turn indicator to signal that you need to overtake. Be sure that the way ahead and behind is clear before overtaking a vehicle

Never overtake when you do not have a full view of the road ahead

Never overtake on curves and road bends

Re-check to ensure that the way is clear and that no one is coming at a fast speed from behind