The Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) has announced a proposal to set up an ASEAN data and information coordination centre on road safety, said to be able to help the region achieve its goal in reducing road fatalities by 50%, according to Bernama.
Director-general Prof Dr Wong Shaw Voon told the national news agency that such a centre was vital in coordinating and establishing a standard on road accident data. “The data is the benchmark for more standardised and accurate accident statistics for ASEAN,” he said. “The regional centre will also facilitate all parties involved in the initiative, considering that it involves the 10-member countries.
“We are aware that the environmental conditions and policies or even methods used in each country are different, hence the need for a more formal and structured channel to carry out the effort effectively.”
One example Wong brought up of a statistic that needed to be standardised was the definition of death in an accident. “For example, in Malaysia, a person who succumbs to injuries in an accident following treatment for a maximum of 30 days in a hospital is classified as a road accident fatality,” he said. “But in some ASEAN countries, the estimated time is within 24 hours or seven days.”
Wong noted that the effectiveness of studies conducted in the name of road safety would be affected if such data was left unstandardised, adding that the platform of data coordination would be the centre of road safety information, and that member states can refer, evaluate or assess the effectiveness of each policy using such a platform before said legislation would be applied in their respective countries.
“In fact, the coordination centre will also be the major source for educational institutions such as universities to widen their knowledge on road safety,” he said.
MIROS was chosen as one of the agencies to promote road safety in South East Asia, during the 21st ASEAN transport ministers’ meeting last week.
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This cannot be done lah. Because everytime there is foreign data, our local pariahs will dispute. Recently PRDM (Polis Raja Di Malaysia) also dispute recent ASEAN figures also on accidents in Malaysia.
As with the majority, there is always a denial of the internal problems. Even their big boss also songlap RM2.6 billion, the whole party, including all the Ministers and Deputy Ministers, all keeping quiet and scared to sack him. This is because they are all like him.
So, in Malaysia, better we don’t collaborate with foreign Governments cause we are always in denial
Whatever.. See what happen to Proton Iriz.. even have 6 airbag & 5 star rating for premium variant, people still buy the standard & executive variant which is rated 4 star asean NCAP.. Malaysian market just want a cheap & reliable cars.. Buy Toyota better.. good RV!
Rakyat Malaysian prefer safety and with affordable price… like abolish AP system and 25% excise duty on CBU cars !!! Others MAI /MITI /Mitos proposal are all rubbish like the boss “donation statement”.
But the picture above stated the one tested comes with 2 airbags…
U will find out most of the car accident are Perodua
As usual another great idea with pretty much valueless results.Purely academic viewpoint! End up spending more money…try to get the basics right and get the cars here to comply to minimum 5 stars. What happened to the case of Proton removing safety feature siuch as tethering hooks? A sorry and pat on shoulder?…that attitude needs change!
I tink they have too much freetime…they wanted to show thy r smart but dumb…and have they cek wit anoter genius club MyCC (Malaysian Competition Comitte) whether legal to share info data else they will threathen to saman 10% of a company’s annual worldwide revenue…according to them it is illegal to share monthy car sales in Malaysia by individual models