The transport ministry is considering the possibility of making defensive driving courses mandatory, particularly for drivers with traffic offence records or those with suspended licences, reported Bernama.
The consideration is part of the transport ministry’s efforts toward improving the existing curriculum, with greater focus on practical driving skills and accident avoidance instead of merely passing licence tests, transport minister Anthony Loke has said.
“This is a new approach we want to introduce, either by mandating or encouraging drivers with suspended licences and similar cases to return for defensive driving courses or undergo training on safer and more responsible driving to prevent accidents,” Loke said, in response to Abdul Latiff Abdul Rahman (PN-Kuala Krai) regarding the proposal to review the motorcycle licence training curriculum.
Regarding motorcyclists, the transport ministry and the education ministry have agreed to implement more targeted interventions, particularly among school students who ride motorcycles to school.
The MyLesen B2 programme, which had offered free B2 motorcycle licenses to those in the B40 group, will now be targeted at secondary schools to ensure student motorcyclists receive formal and structured training in order to reduce accidents due to inexperience.
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Lembutnya layan. Just take them out of the road.
SMK Gombak Setia less than 1km away from Balai Polis Gombak.
Every day students and parents can be seen riding motorcycles without wearing helmets and against the traffic. If the enforcer really cares about road safety, you should deploy your policeman at the school gate every morning.
Announce this and that but the quick win is just under your nose to implement but lousy to do.
Make them sit through everything. Since they don’t know they basics right? Start from scratch. Theory test, clock practical lesson hours at driving school, practical at driving school. No fake private driving lessons.
stop creating so many new rules if you aren’t going to enforce it anyway. we already got so many existing rules and regulations which are totally ignored. Motorbikes speeding at emergency lanes, riding in car lanes when bike lanes exist, fancy number plates, too many to even list.
fully support this initiative, time to remove those insane drivers from the road
so they will get to learn how to control a slide?