If you have a BlackBerry device then probably you was one of those affected by the fall of the company's services last week. In the list of consequences of this decline are some items already nervous as users expected, loss of important messages, possible financial losses and many others. But one particular consequence was something nobody could have predicted: the days of unavailability of services from RIM, traffic accidents decreased for two Arab cities.
Those who claim they are the chiefs of police of the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, and Dubai, the second largest city in the nation. They say they saw a 40% drop in accidents in the first and 20% drop in second, both during the period in which the BlackBerry services were unavailable.
Be smart: make pairing the BlackBerry in the car and do not send SMS.
The police chief Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim, and Brig Gen Hussein Al Hareth said this was because, due to the decline of services, BlackBerry users could not read e-mails or texting with their phones while driving, which forced them to pay more attention to the traffic.
As Abu Dhabi has a lot of businesses and commercial buildings you expect the number of executives working on them is too high, then the data from the local police to make sense. But another factor may be also pointed out by staff of the Naked Security: the death of national team football in the UAE, Theyab Awana. He died in a traffic accident while sending a message on your BlackBerry, which may have caused a greater awareness of this danger to the Arab population.
