The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) is considering making the installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) and speed limiter devices compulsory in express buses, a measure discussed earlier this year. Additionally, bus drivers could be subject to a demerit system.
This was said by Tan Sri Syed Hmid Albar in a The Sun Daily report, following a bus crash in Johor recently which claimed 14 lives. Hamid said many buses plying Malaysian highways do not have such devices installed, but newer buses that were introduced recently came pre-equipped with speed limiters.
“The problem is, just look at how many existing buses have them installed, and how many do not? And when an accident happens, it’s usually because they do not comply to SPAD’s regulations and requirements,” said Syed. He also said that SPAD is considering installing telematics – a monitoring system similar to the black boxes on commercial aircraft – to record the bus driver’s driving characteristics.
Additionally, a demerit system could deter drivers from breaking the law, but this would require co-ordination with the relevant enforcement agencies over SPAD’s area of jurisdiction, said Syed. “Currently, we are already giving out prizes to the best bus companies and what not. Now, I think what would be the best move is to have the demerit system introduced,” he said.
Meanwhile, Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) director-general Prof Dr Wong Shaw Voon wants the introduction of risk-based insurance, in order to compel express bus companies to take safety seriously. According to Prof Wong, bus companies that do not consider safety and pose a greater danger on the road should pay a higher premium.
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Considering. Considering. Considering.
Considering all the time. Buat dan enforce tak reti.
SPAD and its chairman should stop existing. Transport Minister should go jump off a cliff.
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Every year same story. 2 weeks time all forgotten. Orang “mudah lupa”. Our gomen filled with mudah lupa staff
Just do it already.
How many times they have been talking about this?
All lip service for now because someone’s abang ipah still looking for solution to be presented to the ministry.
You can even assign on-board marshals to force drivers at gun point to drive safely. But if there is no enforcement, ain’t worth a damn.
Once the outrage dies down, once the people are distracted away. CCTV’S & Limiters will be tampered with, officers will be bribed away. The same old song and dance.
Come on la SPAD….we’ve been talking about speed limiters for a few years now. Just implement it. No more talk needed. Lives are lost while you continue to talk
After every crash where lives are lost, authorities will come up with 101 ideas and plans.
1 week later semua lupa.
Wait for next tragedy to bring up the same nonsense all over again.
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Soooo classic… Cctv, radar, moon satellite and whatever to master the BS-ism…. Every few mnths now, we have a bus tragedy, the lack of enforcement is obvious, we r used to lip service and zero action, that what defines us, but to talk so much dung n do nothing about, is jus so engaging.. Families of the victims should do something too… Yes we all believe in our fates, but we have to do our jobs as well, they should sue SPAD, the bus company and whoever is related, its only when there is a big compensation only then they will do sting,maybe they should write a letter to parliament, or the PM(i kno hopeless bt atleast it raises awareness……
what a joke. do you know the bus companies are all owned by the PM’s people? So, how to write to parliament and PM?
Go and see who are the owners of all bus companies and lorry companies in Malaysia?
Every year, so many lorry hantu kill our Malaysians. Then the driver just runs away. Polis dare not even investigate the lorry owner company cause they takut of the owner.
Examples please.
I think like this 14 live flying up away dato can go back to school again. Give pencen man drive bus they not need money just eat air.
increase their salaries…
better healthcare plan…
then we would attract more would be bus drivers…
It is a specialized skill to maneuver heavy set vehicles, they should be compensated as such…
Driver license expired or no license, bus doesn’t follow proper maintenance, bus too old, speeding on fast lane, what else? 10yrs back I always traveled with coach kl ipoh kl. Already heard uncountable times speed limited beeping buy driver slumberr layan je.
typical knee jerk reaction. These devices are meaningless if there are no proper enforcement, check and balance. These speed limiters have already been put in place since the 90s when Dr. Ling was transport minister…remember the Black Box for buses? what happened to them? Money has been spent and was it effective? how quickly people forget…summary: its a third world mentality problem
No Action Talk Only
Sounds like “Broken-record”.
You said MUST pasang SPEED LIMIT CONTROL DEVICE every express buses early ago..!!!! Ada pasang tak ???? Now cctv ya !!!
Every time things happened, enforcement will just started doing their R&D and then propose some good idea (really good idea, i mean it… GPS tracking, BlackBox).
But then, when enforcement want to implement, the businessman will just started voice up their own problem, like no $$$, no resource lah, Cost high lah…. blah blah blah. Then enforcement said, we will come out a win-win idea/solution for those troubles… Then (*again*)… both parties forgot what their said until thing happened again, the so called solution raise to discuss, like current situation.
The enforcement need to enforce & also talk to Gov, said those thing (GPS tacking & BlackBox) will exemption the tax for those vehicle didn’t have those items BUT for those new vehicle yet to purchase are not include.
Speed limiter is one thing, but what really is needed is an FTL-equivalent for commercial drivers. The real problem is that the drivers are working long hours and not getting enough rest. It was said that the driver in the latest crash had only 3 hours of rest before starting the return journey. That is definitely not enough rest for such a stressful job.
[FTL = flight time limitation. Google “CAP 371” for further info]
Govt doesn’t need to do anything. Private companies should know that passengers dying are not good for business. Read a stupid comment recently by an official saying speed limiters are dangerous as buses need to overtake. Really dumb… Who is saying the bus needs to be driven at the limit all the time???
This is not the first time!
Year end accident, following year said wanted to implement more stringent law. by middle of the year nothing happen, again year end come, accident happen.
Again said will investigate….how long want to implement is it when the minister family involved in the accident only start action one day?
MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT = HANGAT HANGAT TAHI AYAM
Good move by the government.
One live lost is too many, and the recent isolated case of bus accident shows that the government is quick to respond with effective measures. Give it sometime to the capable hands of SPAD to come out with a cost effective measure to help rakyat travel safer with our public transportation. The private operator of the bus should be held responsible, there is literally nothing the government could do to prevent this from happening. Again an isolated incident.
As compared to other high income countries, the accident rate is fairly low in malaysia in public transportation. More recognition should be given to the authorities for helping keeping the fatalities and injuries low during travels.
Well done SPAD, well done Msia government.
– Faiz Roslan CEng
Easiet & fastest way to reduce accidents is by paying drivers decent salaries on par with neighbour countries, and train them then qualify fit to drive buses. With this, theres less pressure for them to make money thru more trips and those on the road will be more professional. Treat them like bus captains instead of drebar bas kilang.
do the same thing for accident involving cars also. cars like Ford of Europe and VW have ECUs that can be diagnosed as to what speed driver was doing, was he accelerating or constant speed. and whether he brake before accident, how hard and how long brake was applied. too many car accident involving cars.
If the political elite did not squander our taxes the transport and malaysian road system wouldn’t so bloody unsafe.. this speed limiter suggestion is just another way to make money by bringing in cheap technology under government funding. oh yes, and also encourage sales for insurance policies with yearly premiums. highly entrepreneurial… but for the benefit of whom? one month later i doubt the items will be used, but some one will be laughing all the way to the bank
All the buses should implement the Lane Departure Warning and Adaptive Cruise Control. It damn can avoid accident. Adaptive Cruise Control automate decrease speed when detect vehicle ahead. Lane Departure Warning warns the driver when unnoticeable depart from the lane, or automate readjust the steering.
If happen to their family then they no about the pain, their family driving luxury car with people tax money. Why they bother about RAKYAT..just take care of their own family. who care about you or other your family member.
Please help to put other family that involve in that accident in your shoe..then you will implement the enforcement faster…
just put speed limited to 90kmh etc
german cars aeons ago already put speed limiter in their cars to 155mph. is not a new tech.
the other day saw a bus in NSE travelling >110kmh, but sticker behind said 80/90kmh ^^ no wonder accident happens.
japanese companies even longer than the european car makers in making speed limiter, based on gentlemen agrrement with the government and it is set at 180kmh. doesnt matter if its a CRX or skyline GTR, camry or lancer evo.
This accidents will stop the day we start prosecuting the directors and senior managers of the transport companies
I remember after the Genting Highland incident which claimed many lives, there were talking about the same thing. That was in 2013. But nothing happened.