Use phone app to report minor accidents in Dubai

• Image Credit: Courtesy: Dubai Police
• In the case of a minor accident, both motorists can send the report straight away instead of waiting for the police.

Dubai: Reporting to police your own minor fender bender car accident has never been easier.

Motorists will soon be able to report their own minor vehicle accidents on local roadways via smartphone rather than calling Dubai police officers on patrol to attend the scene, confirmed a senior police official.

In an interview with Gulf News, Colonel Khalid Nasser Al Razooqi, General Director of Smart Services at Dubai Police, said the police service is set to launch next month a new app — dubbed ‘Report Minor Accident from Phone’ — that allows drivers to report their own minor accidents via mobile phone and receive the police report for the accident.

The new e-service negates the need to call the police to the site of the accident or even go to a police station.