reducing roadkills

by Dhaanavendharan

title ministry of malaysia

During the olden days, roads were built during the British colonial era before 1957. At that time, the British government built the roads in order to enable them to transport goods and commodities easier. But when Malaysia was independent and many years passes by, numbers of Malaysian are facing many difficulty, accident and death.Road accident is one of the major causes of death and injuries in Malaysia. In the year 2001, the total number of road accidents was 265,175 with fatalities of 5230, seriously injured 6942, and slightly injured 30,684. It is a shocking fact that road accidents kill more people in other developing countries too, every year, than war and disease. In Asia alone, 400,000 people are killed on the roads annually and more than four million injured. According to WHO, every year, nearly one million people are killed, three millions are severely disabled for life and thirty millions are injured in road traffic accidents. The social and economic, economical cost of these accidents is also so high that it would he sufficient to buy the world total production of cereals each year. Furthermore, the number of accidents is in constant increase throughout the world. the causes of road accident are faulty vehicles, uneven roads, careless/reckless driving, speeding, drunk driving, inadequate sleep, alcohol and other drug effect and many more. According to a case-control study of 571 drivers involved in road crashes, it was found that driving when sleepy, driving after five hours’ or less of sleep, and driving between 2 am and 5 am were associated with a substantial increase in the risk of a car crash resulting in serious injury or death. Such cases are responsible for up to a fifth of all such road crashes. The authors conclude that a reduction in these behaviors may reduce the incidence of injuries or death up to 19%.

Therefore, due to the recent increment of bus accident, I as ministry of rural and regional has a solution to these problem. One way is by improving road conditions. We must give  more attention to road surface, type of bitumen and lighting at night to reduce this problem. The authorities also should put signs at strategic locations to warn drivers  about the dangers of the road. This way can decrease their vehicle speed. Besides road conditions, we must also enforce the law. More effective and strick law should be enacted such as ban on express bus travel at night, give a warrant to  people who violate road traffic rules and so on. The law enforcement must be firm and do not discriminate. Other than that ,education must be given to beginners. An education can be implemented through exposure in moral subject at school, by improving a training in driving school and give more information about safety road to all people. Last and finally, we must have campaign. we  can implement the campaign to people to instill awareness among them. The campaign like ''Traffic Safety and Road'' is one of the campaigns to raise moral and civic values. 

Road accident in Malaysia is increasing every year and is dangerous to all people. In this situation all people must realize and give more attention to decrease the rate of road accident. At the same time, all people must cooperation with authorities like police to settle this problem. As we know many factors that cause this problem and the main factor is from human. After that the causes are road condition from poor, climate and vehicle factors. The rate of road accidents could be reduced by the various actions including from education, comfortable road condition, campaign and enforced the law. If all people give support and cooperation, this problem could be settled easily and our country also can decrease the number of deaths that result from road accident. For my conclusion we must work together to reduce the number of road accident.