Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Important of Road Safety by Sathiasegkaran a/l Muthumanickam

“Look mum, there is a man under the bus!” said a little girl to his mother. In Malaysia these scene actually happen almost every day. We can see a man under a bus or a car, a car fly over the road divider, motorcycle turning to scrap metal and maybe a man flying up into the air. The actions that had been mentioned just now are not from a Hollywood movie or drama scene. They really happen in our daily life. What are those all about? Of course the situation concern about road accident. Can we overcome the situation which faced by every person in our community?

To prevail over, we can start enthusiastic the road safety on our own. As a pedestrian, we must practice the safe way to cross the road carefully and try to avoid standing in the middle of the road. This act very dangerous and you are actually putting yourself jeopardise. The fact shows that, pedestrians become the victims of road accident because of the carelessness and lack of acquaintance. Frankly speaking, most of them are pupil or student, because they did not have any early road safety education, beside the negligence of their own parent.

Conversely, the road accident may happen because of the irresponsible road users. Especially for the goods transportation company, they carry the goods in a large number of quantities. The driver and the worker ought to be more careful when carrying out the job. Devoid of any safety precaution, the vehicle will become the cause of another accident. For instance, in Penang Bridge last month, a crane toppled causing a massive traffic jam along The Jelutong Expressway and Bayan Lepas coastal road heading towards the mainland. Besides that, as road user, we must always abide the rules and regulation of road safety. Somehow, not all road users knew the road regulations and practice them. In order to solve this matter, the vehicle license given to the new driver in Malaysia should be stricter and an evaluate them who disobey it. This will make the new driver know the important of rule and regulation and will concern more on road safety.

Moreover, the number of vehicle in Malaysia is keep increasing, according to the statistic from the Ministry Of Vehicle And Transportation, in 2009 there are about 19854227 vehicle registered and absolutely more accidents will occur in future if each driver did not take the road safety as important for their daily life. Many drivers practise safety precautions on the road but still there are certain road user who are reckless and always doing something which showing unethical attitude on the road. Of course for this kind of person they may bump into problem that is road summon by traffic policemen and possibly a road accident. Recently, in Kuantan, according to the state Road Transport Department, 6,069 summonses had been released in just two weeks duration of Hari Raya Puasa last month. The summons mostly issued to drivers who do not put on rear seatbelt. The Enforcer Director said “We regret that the number of summonses increase during every operation” he said during the road traffic conference at Jalan Kuantan-Gambang.

In conclusion, we may think that the practice of road safety is unimportant and do not make any sense for us but the fact is the entire road users should follow and practice the road safety rules and regulations because a simple careless mistake can lead to unwanted outcome from becoming the new victim or causing someone to be a victim and may lose life too. Then, the entire road user ought to be more responsible and more tolerant when on the road for safety of their family and others.

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