Al Sayed believes that the issue has gone beyond just the number of motorcycles, or the fact that most of them do not have official registration plates or driver’s licenses, or even the traffic chaos of driving in the wrong direction and running traffic lights, to what he described as a “new fashion” of driving a motorcycle with one hand and using the phone to send messages at the same time, accusing some drivers of negligence, saying: “And if you honk at him to pay attention, he looks at you upside down.”
He pointed out that in accidents involving a motorcycle driver, the car driver is often held fully responsible, noting that the injured party may have to pay for the cost of repairing the motorcycle and the cost of treatment in the hospital, and the matter may even reach imprisonment in the event of the death of the motorcycle driver.
Al Sayed acknowledged that the current Minister of Interior is a “serious person,” but he inherited an accumulated situation that has worsened over the years, demanding more stringent measures, and questioning the effectiveness of “confiscating motorcycles randomly,” and whether the optimal solution lies in “a dictatorial measure that calls for imprisoning every violating motorcycle driver immediately, to preserve his life before others.”
