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Nov 2024
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DELIVERY DRIVER SAFETY

DUBAI EYE 103.8
About this episode

Worrying figures out this morning show how dangerous it is for our delivery drivers working on the roads of Dubai.


Police here say 18 have died this year in accidents. 

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