Road Accidents In Malaysia

According to the ministerial functions act 1969 the mow is responsible to plan build and maintain all federal roads gazetted under the federal roads act 1959.

Road accidents in malaysia. Liow also said that most of the deaths 62 7 involved motorcyclists. This was despite the general insurance association of malaysia s. Road accidents happen every now and then. Deputy director of sarawak health.

Bukit aman investigation and traffic enforcement director datuk azisman alias said between january to june 2019 281 527 accidents have been reported all over the country. Malaysia has the third highest fatality rate from road traffic accidents in asia and asean behind thailand and vietnam. The ministry of transport in order to measure the achievement of road safety improvement in malaysia have set an element decreases death index as one of the key performance indicator kpi. According to road transport department research 2002 accident casualty and deaths by vehicles for malaysia 2000 2006 the number of road accidents increased to 400 cases and it decreased in 2006 that was only about 600 cases 21 600 cases had been reported.

There have been more than 280 000 road accidents recorded nationwide during the first six months of this year. This was an increase from the total of 6 706 deaths that was recorded in the year 2015. These fatality rates are similar to that of some african countries. The major common reason of causing road accident in malaysia is the driver behavior.

Fyi nearly 50 people died on the first day of songkran itself. Sistem jalan persekutuan malaysia is the main national road network in malaysia all federal roads in malaysia are under the purview of the ministry of works mow. Road accident can be cause by driver behavior equipment failure roadway design and poor roadway maintenance. Malaysian federal roads system malay.

Malaysia has the second highest road accident deaths among 21 countries in the western pacific region in 2018 according to world health organization who. Unfortunately many of them are fatal accidents and in malaysia we have the third highest death toll from road accidents in asia and asean as reported by the star. 2018 was the most dangerous year for drivers on malaysian roads since 2012 with a seven year high in the number of road accidents. Road accident can be cause by driver behavior equipment failure roadway design and poor roadway maintenance.

By the year 2014 the ministry of transport has set a target to bring down death index to 2 88.