Driving in broad daylight, in clear weather conditions on a highway would apparently make for ideal driving conditions, though as discovered by Facebook user Ahmad Shahir Arif as posted to the DashCam Owners Malaysia Facebook page, identifying and avoiding hazards on the highway in clear weather still requires the driver’s utmost attention.
According to the driver of the camera vehicle, this was on the stretch of highway going northbound from Johor to Melaka. The driver of the camera vehicle appeared to have slowed his car down in good time in order to move into the left-hand-side lane, pulling in behind the black Tesla Model X the driver had briefly approached earlier in the footage.
It was the best possible outcome, given the circumstances, as the haphazard placement of machinery and vehicle has already proven to be fatal. Just three days ago, a family of three perished in a crash under similar circumstances.
The vehicle they were travelling in had crashed into a lorry that was parked on the right-most lane on the North-South Expressway at KM216, where its operator was placing cones prior to starting repair works, Bernama quoted Alor Gajah district police chief Supt Arshad Abu as saying.
On the highway as on any other type of road, the best defence is the driver’s own situational awareness. Refrain from carrying excessive speed, and above all, be free of distraction when driving. Lives and wellbeing are at stake.
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This must be the sort of brilliant idea of projects that minister said PH cut the budget and reinstated after that, there you go the need to feed some special needs at the expense of every others.
This happened under current BN/PN government. No matter what government also, it is logical to have safety cones for any construction site.
This would be a huge crime in first world countries but knowing ouur BN government, everything will be swept under the carpet lah
Safety is Safety under the purview of DOSH. DOSH is not just safety in construction. PLUS maintenance is no different, having a set rules and protocol for utmost safety concern to avoid and prevent, under any circumstances, from creating ‘dangerous situations’ for accidents to happen.
You can’t blame everything on God or fate when humans are at fault. The workers/employees involved must be reprimanded. If it has anything to do with politics, well it has nothing to do with PH. They are not the federal government anyway.
If want to blame, there is always someone in power to do something before the situation deteriorates further. There is no room for any tidak-apa attitude. The norm should be standard safety protocol everyday, everywhere
Not sure why you bring in minister into this discussion. This is “tidak peduli”, “tidak apa”, “saya betul” attitude of PLUS highway contractor. They obviously don’t follow PLUS SOP.
You think minister (from any govt, in or out of Malaysia) look at how contractor of a private company work?
If no video, they will deny their way out and probably blame the complainer.
Very alert driver, good job for that.
The maintenance truck did have it’s directional arrow on and pointing to the left, indicating “move to the left”
However they could have use more emergency lights while arranging safety cones while slowing down on the fast lane.
From the video, the light was not turn on for indicator arrow light. I could be wrong.
Ada sana John123,
Itu papan lampu anak panah LED atas Lori sana ada menyala
That’s very bad from PLUS…or plus contractors. Especially when there is already a recent fatal crash under the same situation.
Mana SOP woi!!!
These are Malaysian gold diggers. We pay full price toll but never get a full stretch highway. There will always 100% have construction or worst is roadblock by the police….all this come to traffic jams. Poor us…..asyik kena tipu saja.
Wwwwwwwwwow….. bijak betul statement si Supt Arshad Abu tu
Maintenance contracts are siphon out to umno guys who take a huge cut before subcontracting to actual guy who does the job. The indon snd bangala.
This is what I called unprofessional act. There shud be SOP for such activities, not just on how to start placing the cones, but the distance of the first cone to the work area to give ample warning, cone placements must gradually shutting the lane where work is being carried out, if work is at or after a bend or slope, then cone placement must start before the bend or slope. These are simple things that even a layman would know, and what is this apa MIRO doing complicated research, hired PhD scholars etc.
I used to drive on Karak highway at night. The maintenance contractor used to park their equipment by the road shoulder, for continuation of work next day. Then they place a generator a d spot light to illuminate the equipment, but the spot light is too low and the beam strike the eyes of drivers, impairing driver’s view. This is the reason why street lights are erected high and beam directly downward. U fortunately, the Safety Officer of the crew does not know this basic thing. Btw, I wonder if they have a safety officer on site.
Highway operators must grow some HIGHWAY SAFETY SENSE ASAP
Highway operators must grow some HIGHWAY SAFETY SENSE ASAP
hire me to do traffic management for lane closures