Malaysia has been ranked the eighth most dangerous country to drive in out of 53 countries in 2022, according to data from Zutobi, an international driver’s education company. With a safety driving score of 5.63 out of 10, Malaysia improved upon its previous score of 5.6 that placed it seventh in 2021 (56 countries were listed then).
As for others on the list, countries that were ranked as being more dangerous to drive in than Malaysia include Bosnia and Herzegovina (seventh), Croatia (sixth), India (fifth), Argentina (fourth), the US (third), Thailand (second) and South Africa (first).
On the other end of the spectrum, the country that was named the safest to drive in was Norway, followed by Iceland, Estonia, Japan, Moldova, Hungary, Israel, Sweden, the Czech Republic, while Switzerland rounded up the top ten.
Norway had the least amount of road traffic related deaths per 100,000 people at just two, while Malaysia was the second highest at 22.5 behind Thailand at 32.3. It added that Japan, France, the Czech Republic and Germany had highest seatbelt wearing rate at 98% compared to Malaysia’s 73.8% – Bolivia is estimated to have the lowest at just 3.5%.
The study also stated that despite Malaysia having the most relaxed legal limit when it comes to blood alcohol concentration at 0.08% – shared with the United Kingdom, United States and Guyana – it had the lowest amount of alcohol-related road traffic deaths at just 0.1%.
By comparison, South Africa had the highest alcohol-related road traffic death rate at 57.5%, followed by Ireland (38.5%), Cuba (33.3%), Slovenia (32%), Costa Rica (31.2%), Canada (29.6%), Portugal (29.2%), the US and France (29%) and New Zealand (27%).
Zutobi’s methodology for its study involved analysing each country based on five factors: estimated road traffic death rate, maximum highway speed limit, seatbelt wearing rate, road traffic deaths attributed to alcohol and the BAC limit for drivers. Each country was given a normalised score out of ten for each factor, and an average score was calculated across all five factors.
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An accident can be reported within 24 hours of taking place. Driver was mabuk during incident.. but the next day back to sober.
Actually better the driver was sober. If they reported as drunk their insurance coverage could be voided and thus the claimed party would be on the losing end.
They say “alcool related deaths”: if any of the party is dead, probably police report (and blood test) will be faster
This world has 53 countries only?
LOL and somehow Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Somalia, Pakistan, Lebanon, Russia, and all the other shitholes are “better” than Malaysia? Hahaha.
And somehow Israel is amongst the safest? Did they try survey in Gaza?
What kind of world ranking is this when the results are easily disbelieved.
Mother Russia not in top 10???
Russia is safer than USA? Obvious it is paid.
Highway malaysia banyak pocong lintas jalan, pontianak duduk seat belakang, itu pasal banyak accident
haha malaysians really very funny, everyday complaint existence of kopi lesen, idiot drivers, no signal, cilok sana sini(applies to both cars and bikes) so on and so on. but when data come out showing we ranked one of the worst, cannot accept pulak.
Funny thing is Malaysians complain a lot but they don’t realise they are they ones doing those they complained about.
This is Malaysia. Alcohol related death in a Muslim majority country?
i guess they never travelled to Indonesia
No surprise at all!