The Malaysian government, via the cabinet committee on road safety and traffic congestion, targets to halve the nation’s road accident deaths, especially involving motorcyclists, by 2030, Bernama reports.
According to deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, last year Malaysia lost 6,537 lives to road accidents (equivalent to 18 deaths a day), and about 66% (or two-thirds) of them were on a motorbike, although motorbikes only constituted 14% of all vehicles involved in accidents.
What’s more, based on the value of a statistical life (VOSL) approach, the estimated socioeconomic losses resulting from road deaths last year were RM30 billion.
“This proves that investment in road safety is not merely expenditure, but an investment in saving lives, protecting families and reducing losses to the national economy,” he said, adding that the government can no longer depend on conventional approaches.
Instead, he said more targeted interventions for high-risk groups needed to be implemented, and infrastructure safety, healthcare, education, enforcement and urban planning needed to be addressed more comprehensively.
Zahid said the committee also agreed to implement the Road Safety Framework Programme (SAFERO) in stages in collaboration with the transport ministry, Petronas, the land public transport agency (APAD), the road transport department (JPJ) and the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS).
He said SAFERO would leverage industry expertise in defensive driving, fatigue management and driver behaviour monitoring to enhance heavy vehicle drivers’ competency and professionalism.
Also, the social security organisation’s (PERKESO) Op Cegah would be strengthened through collaboration with the police, JPJ and employers through the use of data to identify high-risk organisations and areas.
“PERKESO data showed that the fatality rate from accidents involving workers commuting to and from work in 2024 was 2.4 times higher than that of industrial accidents,” he said.
Op Cegah is PERKESO’s employer-friendly programme, or soft approach, to raise awareness among employers and employees to practice a culture of occupational accident prevention.
“The government can provide policies, infrastructure, technology and enforcement, but a culture of safety can only be developed when industries, employers and every road user play their respective roles.
“The measure of our success is not how many campaigns or operations are carried out, but how many lives we are able to save,” said Zahid.
berinteraksi dgn penganjur perhimpunan RXZ itu satu usaha yang baik !! Syabas JPJ dan PDRM.
maybe it is good idea to engage with LPT to setup a time table for RXZ riders to use the highway segment by segment… encouraging ride, rest and recover along the way.
Why don’t you get the trucks and lorries out of the expressway and use the trunk roads instead? Today I was driving towards Tapah on the North-South Expressway and saw most of the trucks and lorries in the middle lane, not left lane, even when there were few obstructions on the left most lane.
Then, seriously look at Myvi drivers. I have dashcam proof on how dangerous this fella was driving, weaving in and out of traffic and even driving on the emergency lane to stay ahead. Your NS Expressway monitoring system stinks if you can’t stop this fella early on. Just confiscate his vehicle on the spot. Let him go by bus. He will learn this lesson better than anything MIROS can come up with.
Then look at the Superman motorcyclists especially the KL to Slim River stretch. I know they love this stretch. I have no idea why but am I the only one who notices there are no policemen in that stretch? What is the monitoring system on NS Expressway doing about it? Get them to catch the dangerous fellas in the act, not after the fact.
Today I also saw a Grab motorcyclist driving in the centre lane of the expressway. What is a kapchai rider doing in the centre of the expressway? Sure he needs to make a living too but he can ride safely on the left most lane, can’t he? Again, no one to stop him.
So overall, forget all these departments. Just get the expressway monitoring teams to go after all these people and the accident rate will decline dramatically.
Then you can go after the state and trunk roads.
Asking people to drive sensibly hasn’t worked and will never ever work. You need to deploy AI based surveillance that instantly catches speeding/reckless driving vehicles, rash sport cars, luxury cars without valid license etc. Insfrasructure needs to be put on all high ways and city spots. The system automatically catches and catalogue offenders for PDRM to systemically go after. They are caught, arrested and presented before the magistrate. No one can claim they didn’t know because the footage will expose them. Only then will harsh punishments and all the other legal mumbojumbo even begins to matter. Technocratic dictatorship is the only way scumbags on the roads will learn to fear and therefore behave. Why so these incidents seldom happen in a place like SG? It’s exactly down to this, they have CCTVs up every bumhole.
Fully agreed. Enforcement has to be very strict. People are afraid to commit traffic offences in most other countries. Here, it is ok lah. No one is watching. Get a ticket? Don’t worry. No need to pay immediately. Discount coming up soon! What kind of message are we sending? We should amend the traffic law. Any offence, minimum RM300 fine and must be paid within 30 days. If not, haul the offender to court.
Where can johari dont allow good high tech safe cars into malaysia
becos of MITI everyone drive perodua axia and bezza, how to avoid death when drive milo tin kosong??
maybe build more public transport to reduce the amount of motorists and deathtrap 15 year old cars on the road?
the >15 year old cars are better maintained, because (the owners love them) then all the newer cars as there is no software/screen distraction for the driver!!…
All the switches are mechanical and it’s activated by muscle memory…the audio system is also muscle memory or there are multi disc players in the boot, unlike newer cars where the driver has to fiddle with their phones or the dash touch screen to change song or platform!!
Looks like you actually have no common sense at all!!
ban kapcai motorbikes. use big bikes, or drive a car.
kapcai cause the accidents most times. cars and lorries trying to avoid kapcai.
One word.. enforcement.
That means our enforcement agency employees actually need to do work…mana boleh…gaji buta saja boleh…
Use technology. Police cannot be everywhere, it has been shown to not work.
China and UK (that I know of) has shown technology works
1. More speed camera across all highways. Guess what, msot of the foreigners I met they saying Malaysian drive fast and over the legal speed limit. I heard this words from Australian, Korean, Japanese, China Chinese, European etc. The Japanese told me how can Malaysia drive more than 120-130km/h even during the heavy rain.
2. Trucks and buses. I urge and beg government please allow foreigners to drive. Sound crazy to ask foreigner to drive? Do you all know that a responsible and discipline trucks or buses drivers are extremely difficult to get, just like diamond. These drivers are harder to hire compare to doctor, auditor, lawyer and other professional workers. The current condition is good drivers are incentivize to drive more trips and longer trips, company willing to pay them more. But driver is human being, they will feel exhausted. So what they do to keep them awake, the drug which extend their stamina or spirit. The side effect is although they awake but lose focus tend to driver fast or careless. At least over 70% of drivers are consider “bad discipline” who always no show to work (which cause the good drivers more work), reckless, overspeed (many trucks and buses still no install of speed limiter).
By hiring foreigner to drive the gov can set stricter rule to them such as revoke their work permit if they did wrong on traffic. Like Singapore many truck and buse drivers are foreigners and they obey rule better than local. The local people should never ever blame on foreigners steal their job. Local 40ft truck long haul driver salary is easily RM7k and above. The normal 1 ton truck drivers can easily get paid RM3-4k if they follow the working hour. Guess what, hiring foreginer to drive at least save 30% plus better discipline.
Undang undang semua dah ada. Cuma tak kuat kuasa saja. Lori dipandu 110km/j, 30 lkm/j lebih laju daripada had, tak saman pun? Mana boleh kawal Lori berat dengan kelajuan itu? Tak sempat berhenti jika berbuat demikian. Lagipun, motosikal dipandu laju di antara ruang kenderaan. Peraturan apa tu? Bayangkan semua kenderaan berbuat demikian, tentunya kemalangan naik. Bila accident, rider salahkan kereta pulak seolah naik motor sedemikian dibenarkan oleh undang undang. Haramkan motosikal dipandu di antara ruang kenderaaan lain kecuali kereta lain berhenti.
put 60kmh speed limiter on all motorcycles, problem solved.
Those of us who have been to China regularly since early 2000s and now will tell you speeding has been nearly eradicated.
It was a hellish life and death experience to sit in poorly maintained VW Santanas driven to their limits in city streets and on the highways.
Since near blanket coverage and automated summon with LPR tech, speeding has gone way down. Drivers will pull up on near empty roads, and drive *AT* the speed limit.
You want to half deaths on the road? Do that
don’t BS lah…there are many channels on YouTube that show accidents in China… tofu dreg projects and the 3 wheeler accidents
Yikes also forgot about the UK in addition to my earlier comment about China. There is basically no speeding in the UK *except* for stretches that drivers know have no CCTVs.
I lived in the UK in the 90s and drove along the A40 elevated section in West London (Westway) pretty regularly. You can easily do 50-70mph and higher if you want. Speed limit is now 30mph (due to damaged structure, not due to high accident) and it’s an average speed limit section. Nobody goes above 30mph, you can, but you’d have to slow down at some point below to average 30mph.
Also all around central London, your Uber or taxi is crawling around central London at 30mph or even 20mph. Enforcement by technology works
First photo, SUV tint too dark, bad weather cannot see
second photo, beating Red Light
third photo, double line also accident
4th photo, brake tak makan
Need more driver training and road safety campaigns, also a bigger police and jpj presence on the roads.
Increase fines and fine more often especially for kids not retrained properly, illegal tints and not signaling when changing lanes or at roundabouts and not giving way at roundabouts…
…I had a good RFOL..after reading this!!…
after 46 months as DPM, only now this moron wants to save lives!!…what a retarded moron!!
after bn has been in gov for 60 years but never did anything on the noisy exhaust, rempits n drug and drunk driver issues!!