{
  "id": 17902015,
  "title": "UAE allows authorised doctors, essential workers to exceed speed limits by 40km/h",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/uae-allows-authorised-doctors-essential-workers-to-exceed-speed",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-03T03:05:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/uae/uae-allows-doctors-essential-workers-to-exceed-speed-limits-by-40kmh-1.500733541"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Dubai authorities have introduced a ministerial decision allowing authorized doctors and drivers of certain essential service vehicles to exceed the speed limit by up to 40km/h on roads outside built-up areas. This exemption applies to three types of traffic violations - exceeding the speed limit, using designated emergency lanes, and utilizing bus lanes.\n\nEssential services covered under this decision include emergency medical response for doctors, public road services by government entities, vehicle recovery at accident scenes, and accident scene mapping. Vehicles providing emergency medical services, public road services, recovery services, and mapping services can receive road priority in four circumstances - traffic restrictions, congestion or obstruction, emergencies, and adverse weather.\n\nDoctors qualifying for priority are authorized to provide emergency medical response services at hospitals or approved healthcare facilities when immediate action is required. This includes scenarios like medical emergencies, or when a doctor is urgently dispatched between emirates.\n\nDrivers with road priority are exempt from three traffic violations - exceeding the speed limit, using emergency lanes, and utilizing bus lanes, provided they meet the conditions for exercising road priority. They must adhere to traffic rules, avoid red lights, give way to emergency vehicles, and respect speed limits near sensitive areas.\n\nDoctors seeking emergency response permits must meet four conditions - they must be from essential medical specialties, complete an approved training course, obtain service approval, and hold a valid UAE medical license. The operations room must be informed when providing the service, and priority must be obtained through traffic authorities.",
  "summary": "Dubai: Doctors authorised to respond to medical emergencies and drivers of certain essential service vehicles in the UAE may exceed speed limits by up to 40km/h on roads outside built-up areas under a ministerial decision setting out the circumstances in which they can be granted priority on roads. The decision provides exemptions from three types of traffic violations when authorised drivers…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}