Road Accidents Case Study

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Increased rate of road accidents in Malaysia. I. Introduction Road accident is a global tragedy with the ever-rising trend. Almost every day we hear the news of the accidents in the media. Most people continue to negligent and ignore the danger involved in their driving and so these accidents happen. Road Safety Department (JKJR) director general Datuk Tam Weng Wah said that more than 80% of traffic accidents are caused by human error, according to the statistics by the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros). The main causes of the increasing rate road accidents in Malaysia are road constraints, driver behaviour and illegal racing. II. Body A. Road constraints is one of the main cause that increases the rate of the road accidents …show more content…

There are many types of driver behavior that will cause road accidents and most of the drivers would not realize that those actions are dangerous while driving (personal observation) b. “We agree that a driver’s behavior is one of the causes of road accident, and they also claim that there are 98% of road accidents happen because of the distracted driver.” (LegalMatch, n.d) i. There is an experiment titled “Drinking doesn't affect my driving” before drunk and after drunk but the results show that, the person after drunk will write the words more blur and unallocated. (Rahman, …show more content…

This also means that if we were drunk while driving, we will drive in a blurry condition and it will cause road accident that will also risk other road users. C. Then, illegal racing also one of the main cause that increase the statistic of the road accident in Malaysia. 1. “We do not want illegal racers to spill more innocent blood,” said Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi. (Nurbaiti, 2015) a. For example, on May 4 2015 several Perodua Myvis, which were racing on Duta-Ulu Kelang Expressway (DUKE), caused a Mitsubishi Pajero to crash and a couple and their seven month old infant were killed. (The Star, 2015) b. Illegal racers are travelling at very high speeds and slam on the brakes in emergency situations, the distance between the vesicles will become shorter and will cause the risk of fatality will be higher. (Nation, 2015) 2. Nationwide statistics show that 49 people are injured for every 1,000 who participate in illegal street racing. (Hubpages, 2014) a. Teenagers are mostly influenced by unhealthy environment such as illegal racing because they like to do something new and challenging to satisfy their curiosity. (personal

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