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  Five-month-old child flung out of vehicle, dies in car crash – remember to secure young ones in child seats

  3 August 2022 / 21 comments

  Another tragic loss of life, this time being the loss of a five-month-old child when the vehicle she was travelling in with her family members skidded and overturned at KM161.1 along the North-South Expressway in […]

   

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  Special license should be required for pick-up trucks; much larger, more powerful than driving school cars

  27 July 2022 / 80 comments

  Trained driver in a secured location The government has been advised by a driving instructor to create a new category of driving license to cater for drivers of pick-up trucks, Kosmo reported, in light of […]

   

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  VIDEO: Police escorting luxury cars on trucks caught on camera overtaking dangerously on a double line

  26 July 2022 / 0 comments

  Blue skies and fine weather suggest a good outing on what should be a relaxing drive on a country road, though this was not what Facebook user Hamdan Zakaria encountered, as depicted on dashcam footage […]

   

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  Police reminds of minimum five-year jail sentence, up to RM50,000 fine for dangerous driving causing death

  25 July 2022 / 5 comments

  The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) have issued a reminder to members of the public that conviction of causing death due to reckless and dangerous driving will result in a jail sentence of five years at […]

   

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  Proton X50 driver makes sudden lane change, Toyota Avanza fails to avoid in time – look before you move

  18 July 2022 / 78 comments

  Yet another accident captured on a vehicle’s video recorder, or dashcam has been making the rounds on social media, and this time a round the incident involves a vehicle making a sudden lane change into […]

   

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  Intelligent speed assistance (ISA) to be mandatory in Europe for new vehicles introduced from this month

  12 July 2022 / 5 comments

  Europe is set to mandate the fitment of intelligent speed assistance (ISA) for all new cars sold from July 2024, beginning with “new models [or] types of vehicles introduced on the market” from July 2022, […]

   

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  Malaysian lorry at Singapore causeway fails to stop, crashes into several vehicles; MOT is investigating

  7 July 2022 / 9 comments

  A lorry was shown at the Johor Bahru-Woodlands (Singapore-bound) causeway, failing to stop and colliding with several vehicles in footage circulating on social media today. Malaysian transport minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong has ordered […]

   

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  Slow car cuts into right lane on highway, causes accident – check mirrors, keep your distance, people

  24 June 2022 / 51 comments

  The highway should be where road-going vehicles are less likely to encounter incidents with others, given that everyone should be travelling in the same direction along the same stretch of tarmac. As demonstrated here from […]

   

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  30 km/h speed limit proposed for 10 more roads in Kuala Lumpur, highly pedestrianised areas targeted

  13 June 2022 / 11 comments

  A mandatory speed limit of 30 km/h may soon be imposed on 10 more roads in Kuala Lumpur city, as proposed by Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research […]

   

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  Children on e-scooter cross road without looking, narrowly miss collision with approaching vehicle

  8 June 2022 / 20 comments

  In yet another instance of pedestrian-meets-motor vehicle, footage of children on an e-scooter crossing a main road into the path of an oncoming vehicle has emerged, from a post by Facebook user Ayub Mohd Ali. […]

   

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  ABS to be mandatory on motorycles 150cc and above in Malaysia following MIROS study – transport minister

  24 May 2022 / 22 comments

  The Malaysian government will make the fitment of anti-lock braking systems (ABS) mandatory for motorcycles displacing a capacity of 150 cc and more, Astro Awani reported. According to transport minister Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong, […]

   

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  Glow-in-the-dark markings trialled on Australian roads; part of RM12.5 million road safety package for Victoria

  23 May 2022 / 20 comments

  Visibility is key road safety; to that end, Australian road construction firm Tarmac Linemarking has been selected by road transport safety authority VicRoads, along with safety surfaces company OmniGrip for the trial run of photo-luminescent […]

   

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  Tesla driver in Autopilot crash faces manslaughter charges; first known driver trial in self-driving crash

  23 May 2022 / 10 comments

  A driver of a Tesla Model S in the United States, who had his vehicle operating on Autopilot, is facing manslaughter charges for a crash that killed two persons in 2019 in Los Angeles, California, […]

   

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  Dashcams should be compulsory – USIM lecturer

  17 May 2022 / 9 comments

  Dashcam footage is increasingly present on our social media feeds, and motoring misadventures especially attract interest. When the law is inevitably involved in those instances, the presence of a functioning in-car video recorder is invaluable […]

   

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  Thailand makes child car seats mandatory from Sept 5 – includes cheaper “special seats”; carries RM250 fine

  10 May 2022 / 8 comments

  Thailand has now made the use of child car seats mandatory as part of sweeping amendments to its Road Traffic Act 1979. The new laws, which also cover road racing, are meant to bring the […]

   

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