Over 80% of road accidents due to human error

Over 80% of road accidents due to human error

----Liow Tiong Lai

Well, well, well………………………………………………………………

Tiong Lai Liow may bark so.  Machael Manyin of Sarawak, Borneo barked it to be 65% of road accidents due to human error.  They are 100%  just too general not to be seen barking.

Based on my 20 over years of attention, investigation and examination as well as comprehension.  It is 100% our sickly-minded ministers’ fault for forcing people to resort to buying cars when people don’t have any better choice of public transport. 

Our car industry and businesses always boast about  good sales of cars, be they home-made or foreign-made.  Ng…. no doubt, they can laugh with “their bosoms/chests open with their hearts out”.  （笑开怀）

We all can understand how AP holders and car dealers can laugh their “hearts out”.  They reap lots of the profits and benefits at the expense of so many deaths a year.  It is said it is RM8 billion lost in the loss of lives in all these fatal road accidents.

I wonder if Tiong Lai Liow knows 60% + of the road fatalities  involving motorcyclists.   They are not protected at all by their vehicles.  He should tell us how many kilometres of motorcycle lane in total there is in this country before he barks so much.  He should explain to us why there is no motorcyclist lane along the main road. 

The number of motor vehicles are getting more and more and bigger and bigger, some longer and longer for the late 30 years.  He should check around how many lanes and roads have been upgraded to meet the needs of ever increasing number of cars.  For the last 3 years, based on the newspaper report, there has been 1.8 million cars being sold out so much to the delight of the dealers.  It indeed has the flourishing business not to laugh "their hearts out". 

There are not many roads I travel but Jalan Tong Sang and Jalan Bukit Assek that I often use , the width of the road still remain more or less the same as 50 years ago though the number of car users have increased many folds. 

The width of the road is one of the causes of road accidents.  One of my sister-in-law was nearly killed when she was knocked down by a car passing by her.  She was quite seriously injured.  On 24 July, 2015, I travelled by bus to Mukah and I had some glimpses of the road conditions. 

Quite many parts of the road just have too narrow road shoulders.  Some parts just had steep sides.  Why were railings not built?  The width of the road was just too narrow to feel safe for big vehicles like buses, lorries, trucks .......   All the way, I observed and understood that the road was built by the few consortiums related to the political clowns and the cronies.   They reaped the profits and benefits at the expense of the ignorant and stupid people.

I have read the reports of  cars plunging down the steep slope every now and then.  How many % in responsibility must the ministry of land transport /Public Works Department / ......... take?

I strongly think that there should be proper road dividers everywhere especially trunk roads and WHY are they not built?  I understand many accidents in Sarawak, Borneo involving vehicles from opposite directions.  

Having road dividers and not having mean may mean slightly injured, seriously injured and death.

Improve the road conditions before you bark and bark and bark!

I hope people in different places can rally to study the road conditions and sue the government for road accidents .   We need an organisation to do so.

I understand that there are so many accident prone spots through this country and the gradient of the road often is another cause of road accidents.

Everyone must be more aware of our rights to fight for our own good.