PUBLIC POLICY OPERATIONS GMGA 3033

“Disregard for safety is everbody’s fault” The Star: published on 06/05/2015

DUKE HIGHWAY ACCIDENT

IT saddened me when I read the recent tragic road accident that resulted in two young innocent children becoming orphans.Death on the roads as a result of accidents seem to be a daily affair.Authorities will investigate the cause of the accident that usually centres on either the vehicle or the driver. But are they really investigating the root cause or causes of the accident and coming up with practical solutions to at least minimise such occurrences?In any road accident investigation it appears that the focus is either on the condition of the vehicle or the driver, but little do they realise that the vehicle or the driver is only the visible “tip of the iceberg”.What is not “seen” is the nine-tenth of the iceberg.I am sure that there is sufficient legislation governing road transportation and if everyone observed the legislation we can at least minimise such occurrences and spare the agony of having to deal with the consequences.Being in control of a vehicle requires lots of self discipline. Self discipline includes observing the established legislation governing the speed limit, overtaking, signalling, parking at designated areas, maintaining a safe distance from the vehicle in front, securing seat belts, wearing safety helmets, ensuring that the vehicle is roadworthy, having sufficient rest before long journeys, no queue jumping, etc.Are the relevant authorities enforcing the legislation? It appears not.Look at the blatant disregard for parking (double parking and parking at no parking designated areas), driving at speeds beyond the designated limit, not wearing crash helmets, riding motorcycles with a child sandwiched between the rider and the pillion rider, queue jumping, beating the traffic lights, giving discounted fines for traffic offenders and the list can go on.Taking the total mass of the “iceberg” I can only conclude that every one of us contributes to the fatalities on the road.We lack not only behavioural discipline but also professional discipline.We should be ashamed of ourselves.If only the majority of us, road users/enforcers are disciplined enough to observe the established legislation governing road transportation, such tragic events can be minimised.It’s high time we Malaysians take a reality check and move beyond the denial mode.

MOHAMADON ABDULLAHKuala LumpurPublished: Wednesday May 6, 2015 MY

PUBLIC POLICY OPERATIONS GMGA 3033

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Analyzed Issue : Disregard for safety is everbody’s fault in newspaper published on 06/05/2015Writer’s Opinion : If only the majority of us, road users/enforcers are disciplined enough to

observe the established legislation governing road transportation, such tragic events can be minimised.:Are the relevant authorities enforcing the legislation? It appears not.

Key Variables : Human Behavior / Driving or riding mannersClaim Issues : Law Enforcement Need Improvement & Efficientcy

HISTORY / BACKGROUND OF THE ISSUE

Issues Background:Based on issues appear from the writer opinion, we started a research base on WHO (World Health Organization) Road Death Accident, our team found that short note ops dasar awam\ROAD ACCIDENT STAT WHO.pdf , the conclusion from the analyst is Malaysian Government Policy regarding Road Safety is not achieving the targeted goals and objectives and an improvement in order to minimizing the death numbers. Based on Asian Region Ranking, Malaysia still the highest country involve in the death road car accident.

1. Malaysia 2. Thailand3. Lao4. Indonesia5. Singapore6. Myanmar

Source: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_status/2013/en/

FACTS

1. Based on accident report from PDRM, the motorcyclist is the main contributes to the death toll in the road accidents, this can be verified based various factors such as road condition, weathers, manners, exhausted and others factor that contributes to the death accidents among the riders.

2. From the WHO (World Health Organization) Malaysia in the top 30 countries did not safe to drive due to high road death accidents.

3. Our Enforcement score scales showed that the legislations implementation is below 6 from scale 1 to 10 which means no good.

4. Driving ethics

Here is the map of driving fatality rates per capita, with the most deadly countries (led by Namibia) in red and the safest countries (led by the Maldives) in green. The world average is 18 fatalities from a car accident per 100,000 individuals.

Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/a-map-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-countries-for-drivers/283886/

Type 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Motorcycle 3429 3548 3500 3591 3693

Car 1023 1187 1208 1244 1215

Van 156 138 101 111 103

Bus 45 67 69 48 39

Lorry 197 226 233 197 229

4 Wheel Drive 74 91 84 107 110

ROAD ACCIDENT DEATHS STATISTIC

Source: Jurutera, October 2008

Politics :

1. Ineffective countermeasure actions by government can affects the governmentPublicity due to drawback of existing policy that cannot solve the problem.

2. Existing safety policy need to be revised and improvised in effort to reduce and minimize the number of road accidents.

POLICY ENVIRONMENTSocial :

1. People Life at stake due to lack of responsibility and careless of road users That involved in road accidents.

2. Loss of human capital due to death of national man power that involved in road death accidents.

Economy :

1. Government expenditure increasing during the peak festives seasons due to increasing patient checked in to the General Hospital that involved in road accidents.

2. Increasing of insurance claimed that can created a disturbance to the Insurance based company especially in car road accident & personal insurances.

3. Increasing budget for law enforcement agencies.

POLICY SOLUTIONSIn order to minimize number of car accidents, the holistic solution should be takento ensure the road accidents can be minimized and reduced to achieve policy objectives and purposed. As a Policy Analyst we decide to use 2 in 1 policy solutions that potential to be a master key solution to reduce road accidents in our Country. The potential policy solution methods are:

FACTS SOLUTIONS:

1. Propaganda and drama in mass media will be broadcasted through 5 minutes programmes about the important to follows the road Regulations and safety instruction on the roads. It’s also provide the latest statistic data for daily road accident nationwide. It’s also to give a good ethics that need to be followed by our road user.

* This propaganda will show how the west people behaves on the road and highlight the difference attitude between our road users and west road users.

based on our local road surveillance cameras that records an accident incidents.

LAW SOLUTIONS:

1. The new law and regulation related to the national driving license will be upgraded according to the advance country modules which is includes strict examination to get a driving license and driving test to make sure that the legal road users are well qualified to use the vehicles on the road.

2. Enforce of safety vest ( bouncing light vest) for all motorcyclist . Due to higher fatality from a motorcyclist users.

3. Amendments of fine amount the small mistakes such as parking faulty, braking lights not functioning, throw out rubbish from vehicles, aggressive driving on the road will fined and driving license suspended to educate people to follow the rules in order to create a good driving ethics.

4. New Legal road user will need at least 5 years clean records driving license to get a full legal license to from a related government agencies.

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