Corpun file 1267

Newsday, New York, 7 April 1997

Double Takes

Flogging for the Fast Lane

From news-service reports

The small Gulf Arab emirate of Ras al-Khaimah believes it has finally found a solution to its chronic problem of rash driving: public flogging.

"Violators of the traffic rules would be flogged in public at a mosque that is the nearest to their houses," al-Bayan daily reported last week.

Speeders now face 50 lashes of the whip and 10 days in jail.

Copyright 1997, Newsday Inc.

Follow-up: 12 August 1997 - Reckless drivers flogged in UAE