YeinJee's Malaysian Voices » Traffic Accidents

Fatal bus accident, again

Yein Jee — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:13:51 +0000

An express bus which had 32 traffic summonses, skidded, crashed into a road divider and fell on its side, killing a passenger and injuring 22 others and the driver. The accident occurred at the 383.9km North-South Expressway yesterday. [Bernama]

It’s the third fatal bus crash in two weeks.

The governmnet had vowed to tackle the frequent bus accidents since the Bukit Gantang crash in August 2007, but I don’t see much happening to be frank… buses with abundance of summonses are still allowed on the road; and people who often drive for long distance would have notice how fast the buses were rampaging on the highways.

Do something Ong Tee Kiat, while there is still chance.

Federal Highway motorcycle lane nail-traps

Yein Jee — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:45:28 +0000

Attention to KL motorcyclist using the Federal Highway… it has been brought to my attention that there are suspected malicious act of people putting nails on the motorcycle lane along the Federal Highway (near Carlsberg) each morning to ‘find’ victims with punctured tyres and charged them expensive fees to change their tyres.

A reader has alerted me that two of her staff were injured because of the accidents, and I believe there are more injury cases that went under the carpet. These dirty tactics are not something new, but has been happening for years; it’s pathetic to see people risking other’s life for some easy money.

If you have fell victim to this trap, do report to the police. They might ignore one or two cases, but they will take action if they received more cases… our police are not as lazy as some might believe, there are still good cops around. They might not be able to prevent these gimmicks from happening all together, but they could at least reduce the incident in short term.

I have written to TheStar about this, hopefully they could publish the alert on their paper. Meanwhile, do warn your motorcyclist friends about the trap, and be careful if you are a motorcyclist.

Bukit Gantang bus crash

Yein Jee — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:16:32 +0000

Condolences to families of the deceased in the bus crash near Bukit Gantang on August 13.

It’s reported that the deceased driver had 13 summonses and 2 arrest warrants in his name for various traffic offences. It’s easy to blame on the driver for the accident, but fact is multiple parties should be held responsible for the crash… the bus company, PUSPAKOM, JPJ, police, Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Human Resources etc.

Horrific bus accidents tend to happen in Malaysia every one or two years. Each time it happened, the government will jump out promising all countermeasures to prevent it from happening again… but it is still happening again and again and again. All those countermeasures were only empty talks, nothing much was actually done.

Don’t count on any improvements after this… chances are most people will forget about the accident a few days later; the government leaders will be among these peeps.