In a bid to curb reckless driving, the Malaysian government should consider enforcing mandatory jail sentences for reckless drivers, said National Road Safety Council (JKJR) member, Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
“I believe we need a radical move to tackle this issue by instilling fear and full responsibility among drivers who are found guilty for reckless driving. We must have effective laws to ensure these are deterrent enough to curb reckless driving, especially among heavy vehicle drivers,” Lee added.
This, after the latest incident where a bus driver and 26 passengers were injured when the vehicle overturned at KM 434.9 on the PLUS Expressway near Rawang. Initial reports suggest that it took place at 4.50am, and it was believed that the driver hit the road divider and skidded before the bus overturned and entered the opposite lane.
“Imposing mandatory jail sentences was more timely now than before because passengers and the public were at the complete mercy of reckless drivers of buses and other heavy vehicles,” Lee said.
Last month, eight factory workers died and 44 others were injured in an accident involving two factory buses and a factory van at KM 147 of the North-South Expressway, near the Juru toll plaza.
The worst fatal crash happened in 2013 when 37 passengers died and 16 were injured in an accident which took place near the Chin Swee Temple, in Genting Highlands, Pahang.
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What happen to the Black Box ruling on buses ??! Semua Tak Boleh Pakai ke ??!
Commercial bus & truck drivers w outstanding summons, arrest warrants & substance abuse.
Come take ur Q no. & surrender urself. Pdrm jpj too busy to find you all
Gud inisiatif Tan Sri. JPJ direktor orso abused e-lane.
Don’t consider, just implement..
Finally woke up from deep sleep… mandatory jail term + suspend license + rotan…. baru dia orang takut
superb recommendation. All those gangster drivers including SJ bus and Metro bus.
Operator should be jailed as well, currently all bus drivers are cheap labour, where is the transport minister who should enforce the laws ? Bark only
Rempit & motorists everyday beat traffic lights & use emergency lane also cannot handle.
What about the tint issue ?
Tan Sri , good initiative but we have ZERO enforcement.
Not just the drivers… Something needs to be done about the Buses as well… Especially the tires. Seen too many blowouts happen on buses and lorries to know that something is not right with the standards set by JPJ/SPAD.
I haven’t checked but I hope ‘tayar celup’ is not accepted as fit for use on any vehicle apart from off the road use in this day and age.
Tyre retreads are common in the world of commercial vehicles. Not just in Malaysia.
The problem is, we use the tire until way past botak and not enough rubber left so the tyre will eventually fail. If the commercial vehicle does not have TPM, a leak will cause the tyre to overheat and fail as well.
Perhaps some would also question the quality of retreads that we get here.
true. over used and they may not use quality retreaded tire too. Good retreaded tire won’t peel off like banana skin.
Overall, we have the bad ringgit to blame. Bus operators operate at lousy margin and what more budget available to hire decent drivers?
Apart from that, there’s tonnes of regulation to adhere, GPS la, SPAD license renewal, puspakum … etc etc.
The bus transport industry will slowly nationalised since it become inevitable, juz like rapidkl and etc.
That’s the problem for not having a true free market.
Takpe, belakang mali boss can settle. Ada duit no problemo. To be honest bus drivers are getting dare nowadays. I’ve lost count how many times need to drive beyond 120kmh in order to avoid side by side or being tail gated!!!
There is a proverb say, don’t pick a soap that fell right in front of you. Malaysian motorists (9 out of 10 are ‘bastard’ anyway), be it clunkers or flashy car drivers, kamikaze motorcyclists, ‘bang and kill ready’ heavy vehicle drivers only suitable to be thrown inside jail together with their vehicle taken off from the road and also at least 10 slashes of rotan. Not only reckless and brainless, Malaysian car drivers also are really cunning as well especially when it comes to bypass the seatbelt warning chime sound by using fake seatbelt clip so that they no need to use seatbelt while driving. That’s why they have to be dragged out from the road and thrown inside into any detention center around the country as long as possible.
Actually, there’s mandatory minimum 2 years jail sentence plus fine under Section 41(1) of Road Traffic Act for reckless driving if I am not wrong. So why consider something which already there?