JEDDAH: Director of Jeddah Traffic Brigadier Wasallah Al-Harbi said whoever is caught practicing car drifting will be punished by law and he will need to take a driving test after he promises not to drift again.

This also means that if an offender is caught car drifting for the first time, his vehicle will be seized for 15 days and he will have to pay a SR1,000 fine. A court will decide how his prison sentence will be applied, he said.

Al-Harbi added that offenders caught for the second time will have their vehicles confiscated for a month, a penalty of SR1,500 will be applied and a court will impose a longer prison sentence.

A third-time offending drifter will be penalized with a SR2,000 fine, the vehicle impounded and a longer prison sentence, in addition, he will have to pay more if the vehicle is rented or stolen.