A Dubai court has imposed a three-month driving suspension and an AED 5,000 fine on a motorist who was found intoxicated while asleep behind the wheel, his car left blocking traffic at a busy junction in the Naif area.
The Traffic Court determined that the vehicle’s having halted mid-road, with the man unconscious inside, pointed to a clear inability to drive safely. Judges added that his admission matched the evidence contained in the case file, as reported by Emarat Al Youm.
During proceedings, the man conceded that he had been drinking before getting behind the wheel and accepted that he had driven while impaired. He told the court he had consumed alcohol the day prior to the incident and requested leniency.
The matter had reached the courtroom by way of the Public Prosecution, to which authorities referred the case once laboratory results verified the presence of alcohol in his system. It was subsequently passed to the Traffic Court for trial.
Officers had been alerted after Dubai Police fielded an unusual call: a car sitting motionless at the centre of a road junction, disrupting the flow of vehicles and unsettling other drivers. A patrol dispatched to the location found the saloon stationary in the middle of the intersection, its driver asleep inside.
The police account states that when officers tried to rouse the man, they noticed indications that he had been drinking — observations that testing later confirmed.
The licence suspension takes effect from the date the ruling becomes final.
