The police has announced the statistics for its Ops Selamat 15 road safety operation held in conjunction with the Hari Raya Aidifitri festive season. A total of 24,461 traffic accidents were reported during the campaign, a 9.1% increase from the 22,411 recorded during Ops Selamat 13 last year.
According to deputy inspector-general of police Datuk Mazlan Mansor, there was also a slight increase in the fatality rate, with 249 deaths compared to 248 in 2018. He added that more fines were also meted out this year, the police issuing 350,537 summonses compared to 343,863 last year, The Star reports.
He attributed the rise in accidents and fatalities to driver attitude, saying that it needed to change. “Carelessness contributed to 27% of all accidents, with 10,271 cases recorded. Losing control of a vehicle was also the main cause in fatal accidents, involving 92 of the 232 fatal accidents recorded,” he stated.
Mazlan said the department will continue with its total enforcement approach beyond the festive period to try and reduce traffic accidents and fatalities. “The police will also study the enforcement design currently employed in order to make it more effective for future campaigns,” he said.
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Mr Anthony Jokers is great.
More black tint please instead of focus in the real problem.
In Malaysia, it is reported that there are officially 4 to 5 million road users without licence.
In a country where there are 10 million road users, this means 1 in every 2 or 1 in every 2.5 road users are illegal
This is shocking! Mind you, these are official figures from JPJ and the Government themselves.
You may ask why the figure is so high? Very simple. 20 years ago, the figure was only 20,000 road users with no licence.
Over time, because of corruption, the figure has ballooned to 4 million
This is why there are so many road accidents on our roads today
License or no license, that isn’t the problem. The problem is the enforcement and the reason why enforcement was lacking this year is because the Transport Minister prefers to be a banker instead of doing his job.
More likely, because those who do not pay road tax and insurance, the motorbikers, realised enforcement is lacking and punishment is mild.
1. How many cars? With or without VSC?
2. How many motorcycles? With or without a license?
3. How many lorries, buses, trucks? With or without retreaded tyres?
4. How many on highways and old roads?
Give us the statistics!
you cant handle the truth!!
thats why i give you the tint so everyone can hide..
– A.Joker
27% due to carelessness…
What is in the 73%?
I’m sure poor road conditions, mechanical failures and lesen terbang drivers are also major contributors..
Well, I hope none of your family members were part of the fatality statistics.
249 deaths.
350,537 summonses.
24,461 traffic accidents.
Sobering figures, indicating very little (nothing) has changed in driving habits in this country.
More traffic police required, more enforcement, ensure ALL summonses are paid on time and take away the licenses of repeat offenders. It is the only answer, in my opinion.
“Carelessness contributed to 27% of all accidents, with 10,271 cases recorded. Losing control of a vehicle was also the main cause in fatal accidents”
I believe driver always had total control with his/her vehicle. Lost “Control control” is pretty lame excuse when accident happened.
BTW, which category of cause for “I play handphone while driving, then accident happened”?
Is it carelessness category???
Loke should quit his job immediately. His role is not to prioritise money collection over accident reduction.
He seriously failed to perform. Period.
It’s over simplistic to say that after 1 year as Minister, Loke has failed and should be sacked, in my opinion. If that was the case in any job, someone like Alex Ferguson would have been sacked by Manchester United after his first year there….lol.
However, there has to be a short, medium and long term plan put in place on how this problem can be fixed. I obviously don’t know if the Department has that plan, but if they don’t then they need to get onto it immediately. We can’t sit around for a few days after the event and complain about the statistics, then move onto something else and forget about it. This problem is actually fixable and it needs to be addressed now.
Even sites like this one can be used to develop road safety campaigns to highlight what drivers SHOULD be doing on the roads. Who knows, if done properly, paultan.org could be a flagship for change in Malaysia’s driving culture and reap the benefits and rewards for making the effort to change our road culture.
Something to consider, Paul?
Klopp didn’t take more than 2 years on the job to win CL. Some have the right way to do it others don’t, and clearly Loke doesn’t. He must go immediately.
LOL…..very true…….BUT….
He had a squad with some quality when he arrived and he also spent 415 million UK Pounds to increase that squad.
Loke needs to spend money to help solve the problem. Will it be given to him?
Simple arithmetic will show that giving him funds to increase the number of traffic police will be recouped VERY easily and quickly with the endless amount of traffic infringements each and every day.
The BIG question is, would it be politically favourable, as many will Malaysians complain about the fines.
My logic to that is fairly simple, if you don’t break the road rules you don’t get fined.
LOKE MUST GO. NOW!
If they can give breakdown of cars, lorries snd motorbikes and then we can conclude what should be done.
Told you all months ago, Ah Loke is a joke.
very easy, ALL policies are by collaboration with others, and its not just announce by Minister to make things work.
From the tint, you can see its apparently Mr Joke cant work with anyone (the police in this case), and quickly announce.
If just finger pointing to others, and blame it is not working? we dont need human and make machine AI as the minister la..