Naïve ABDULLAH Wishes for ZERO ACCIDENT; Human Factors Caused Accidents; Accidents can be avoided, reduced, prevented; AVOID Accidents AVOID DEATHS?
UPDATE:OCT 27 06 - 10th Day of OPS SIKAP XI
Despite Reminders Motorcyclists Still Record High Number Of Deaths;
During the corresponding period last year, 174 deaths were reported. Federal Traffic Chief SAC II Nooryah Mohamed Anvar, when contacted today, said the number of fatalities might increase over the next two days as more people were expected to criss-cross the states after spending the long festive holidays in their hometowns. "Today itself at about 10am the traffic volume showed some increase and is expected to pick up further late in the evening," she said.
She said the wet weather forecast for the next few days might also contribute to more road mishaps. "We can only advise them to be more careful and it's up to road users to plan their journey and obey the traffic rules," she added.
A statement issued by the federal traffic police showed that a 1,231 accidents were recorded yesterday with 402 occurring on municipal roads, federal roads (396), state roads (240), highways (129) and other roads (64). The number of summonses issued to traffic offenders showed a drastic increase to 8,460 yesterday compared with 5,825 on Wednesday.
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16 Die On Second Day Of Ops Sikap XI
ABOVE: One of the 11 mototcyclists whose skills were not good enough on federal roads and BELOW: The Express Bus who knocked into a car
Of the total, 11 were motorcyclists, two car drivers, two van passengers and one pedestrian, Federal Traffic Police Chief SAC II Nooryah Md Anvar said.
Five were killed in crashes on federal roads, four on municipal roads, three on state roads and two each on highways and other roads, she said in a statement Thursday.
A total of 1,054 accidents were reported and 10,883 summonses issued yesterday, she said.
Ops Sikap XI is a road safety enforcement exercise to reduce accidents during the balik kampung rush and the return journey. It will be in force until Oct 31.
ABOVE & BELOW: The remains of smashed to pieces little car against the express bus
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Abdullah Upset With Drivers For Ignoring Police Advice;
KEPALA BATAS, Oct 19 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is very disappointed with drivers for not paying heed to police and government's advice to give priority to safety while on the road during the festive season. The prime minister said it is only the first day of Ops Sikap XI launched two days ago, 18 people were killed in road accidents, dashing his hope to see no fatal accidents during the "balik kampung" exodus and the return trip."If possible, let it be no accidents at all, zero accident, but already 18 people have died on the road," he said when giving out bursaries and Hari Raya alms to 145 high achievers and 339 poor families here Thursday.
With a sad and regretful tone, Abdullah described the reckless drivers as "not valuing their lives" and did not take seriously the advice and reminders to protect themselves and lives of others."It's as though the drivers are deaf, not listening to advice by the police and government. As though human life to them has no value, no price. They are not bothered, want to die, dielah," he said.Abdullah said their dangerous driving not only caused death to themselves but also to other innocent road users.
He said negligent drivers who did not care for the safety of others were usually the cause of accidents and not their vehicle factor."During every festive season, when people want to be happy ushering in the festive celebrations, something sorrowful will happen. Because of one person, other people will have to suffer," he said.Abdullah said despite his repeated advice and campaigning on road safety, fatal road accidents continued to occur.
"For every one person who dies in a road accident it is a loss to the country, the family and hundreds of others who will be in sorrow for losing their loved one."One dies, 300 others will be in sorrow including the family members. On one side is the wife and siblings and close friends on the other side. If thousands die in accidents, imagine the hundreds of thousands more in sadness," he said.He also wants drivers to think who would take care of the wife and children if they are killed in accidents.
Abdullah also asked parents and elderly folks to advise their children and grandchildren returning to their hometowns for Hari Raya to be careful when driving and avoid driving in sleepy condition."Always remind your children and grandchildren, don't drive hastily to reach home fast, even late is alright. If you're sleepy, don't drive at all, have sufficient sleep before driving. "Throughout the night, you're busy making Hari Raya cakes, sewing, making kerepek (tapioca or banana which has been thinly sliced and fried) and in the day, you want to drive. If you're sleepy, how?" said the prime minister.On Yayasan Budi Penyayang, Abdullah wants the welfare body's new leadership to continue the good work of his late wife Datin Seri Endon Mahmood in extending a helping hand to the needy regardless of race and religion."Tomorrow is my wife's first death anniversary. Hopefully, her good deeds bring happiness to the aid recipients," he added.
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BELOW: IGP Tan Sri Musa Hassan declaring open a safety campaign in conjunction with TM (Telekom Makaysia)
UPDATE 1:OCT 18 06:
Eighteen Deaths On First Day Of Ops Sikap XI
Federal traffic police chief SAC II Nooryah Md Anvar said Wednesday nine of the dead were motorcyclists and two were pillion riders.
The others were a car driver, a lorry driver and two attendants, a driver of another vehicle and two pedestrians, she said in a statement.
She said eight of the deaths occurred on municipal roads, five on federal roads, three on state roads and two on other roads.
Altogether, 1,042 accidents were reported and 8,508 summonses were issued yesterday, she added.Ops Sikap XI will be on until Oct 31.
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PWD Forms Team To
Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said that members of the teams would patrol them round-the-clock in three shifts between Oct 20 and 29 to ensure smooth traffic flow at the affected locations.
"The teams will also monitor and take action on damaged roads," he said when launching a road safety campaign, here Tuesday.
ABOVE:Datuk Samy Velllu doing his part in the safety campaign, symbolically flagging off the Patrol Officier
Samy Vellu said that since early this year, the department had upgraded safety measures at 299 locations considered as high risk for motorists.
He said that directives had been issued to contractors involved in road repair works to stop their activities for the periods Oct 20 to 21 and Oct 27 to 28 and to also clear the roads of construction and maintenance equipment between Oct 18 and 31.
"This is to avoid the presence of heavy vehicles on the roads, which is often the cause of traffic congestion," he said.
He said adequate warning signs and blinkers had been placed at necessary locations to warn motorists of construction areas.
"Road signs to re-direct traffic will also be placed at appropriate places to guide motorists," he added.
Samy Vellu also that said the PWD had checked the roads and had taken appropriate measures, like ridding them of potholes.
"The respective state PWDs have also been directed to place signboards like on speed limit, overtaking and sharp bends at locations prone to accidents to caution motorists," he added.
He said that new signboards had also been erected nationwide to remind motorists of the new speed limits for the festive season, which was approved by the Cabinet recently for the period between
Members of the public can forward complaints on damaged roads through the toll free number 1-800-88-5004 or the short-messaging system (SMS) to jkr and send to DAPAT (32728) or e-mail to aduan@jkr.gov.my.
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Deaths on motorcycles have increased 54% since 1997. Per mile traveled, the number of deaths on motorcycles is more than 25 times greater than that in cars. Much of this difference is due to the unique vulnerability of motorcycle riders because of motorcyclists' lack of visibility to other drivers. In a study, motorcyclists wearing any reflective or fluorescent clothing had a 37% lower risk of being involved in a crash than those not wearing such clothing. If the driver's helmet was reported to be white or light colored, the risk was 19% less. And use of daytime headlights was associated with a 27% decreased risk.
When we are enlightened we see things from a higher stand point from a higher intelligence. We see nothing happens by ACCIDENT or due to our own doing.
Either we are victims in an unfeeling, unsensing, dumb, chaotic universe, and everything is the result of chance or accident; or we are masters of our fate. There is no in-between.
Whenever you feel yourself powerless, then you think accidents just happen and that you have no control over them. The only answer is to realize that you form physical events, individually and en mass; you form the physical reality that you know.
You make your own reality, or you do not. And if you do not, then you are everywhere a victim, and the universe must be an accidental mechanism appearing with no reason. So that the miraculous picture you have seen of your body came accidentally into creation, and out of some cosmic accident attained its miraculous complexity. And that body was formed so beautifully for no reason except to be a victim. That is the only other alternative to forming your own reality.You cannot have a universe in between. You have a universe formed WITH a reason, or a universe formed WITHOUT a reason. And in a universe of reason, there are no victims and no CHANCE. Everything has a reason or nothing has a reason. So, choose your side! If you accept the possibility of the slightest, smallest, most insignificant accident, then indeed you belief a universe in which accidents are not the exception but the rule.
Once you accept, you see, that idea, then if you follow your thought completely enough, you must accept the idea of a random accidental universe, in which you are at the mercy of any accident, in which mind or purpose have little meaning, in which you are at the mercy of all random happenings.
You are not an accident and when we leave it was no accident either. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it. Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you! God prescribed every single detail of your body. He deliberately chose your race, the color of you skin, your hair, and every other feature. He custom-made your body just the way he wanted it. He also determined the natural talents you would possess and the uniqueness of your personality.
Because God made you for a reason, he also decided when you would be born and how long you would live. He planned the days of your life in advance, choosing the exact time of your birth and death.
God also planned where you’d be born and where you’d live for his purpose. Your race and nationality are no accident. God left no detail to chance. He planned it all for his purpose. Nothing in your life is arbitrary. It’s all for a purpose. Most amazing, God decided how you would be born. Regardless of the circumstances of your birth or who your parents are, God had a plan in creating you. It doesn’t matter whether your parents were good, bad, or indifferent. God knew that those two individuals possessed exactly the right genetic makeup to create the custom “you” he had in mind. They had the DNA God wanted to make you. While there are illegitimate parents, there are no illegitimate children. Many children are unplanned by their parents, but they are not unplanned by God. God’s purpose took into account human error, and even sin.
God never does anything accidentally, and he never makes mistakes. He has a reason for everything he creates. Every plant and every animal was planned by God, and every person was designed with a purpose in mind. God’s motive for creating you was his love.
Going hand in hand with the notion that avoiding accidents would avoid deaths imply also a lack of understanding of death. Death is greatly misunderstood as being the end of it all, of coming too soon, sporadically at the right time, not being justified, and all of it never, never having been created by the soul, let alone being respected as such. Death always seems to be something just out of your understanding, responsibility, control and power. This is completely inaccurate.
Death is transformation. Transformation from one way of being into another. A death is just a night to your soul.
No man or woman consciously knows for sure which day will be the last for him or her in this particular life, that each calls the present one. Mortality with its birth and death is the framework in which the soul, for now, is expressed in flesh.
It seems, perhaps, easier to have no conscious idea of the year or time that death might occur. Unconsciously of course each man and woman knows, and yet hides the knowledge.
The knowledge is usually hidden for many reasons, but the fact of death, rsonal death, is never forgotten. It seems obvious, but the full enjoyment of life would be impossible in the framework, now, of earthly reality without the knowledge of death.
Life and death are but two faces of your eternal, ever changing existence, however feel and appreciate the joy of your own being. Many live into their nineties without ever appreciating to that extent the beauty of their being.
Whether you die today or tomorrow, you have lived before, and will again, and your new life, in your terms, springs out of the old, and is growing in the old and contained within it as the seed is already contained within the flower.
So whether you have Operation Sikap, roadblocks or no roadblocks, more police personnel or wear rear seat belts or not; speeding or not, for sure you will have more deaths in 2006 than last year 2005 -212 deaths last year, an increase of 3.3 per cent from 2004 with 205 deaths. When you have more cars and motorcyclists, statistically deaths will go up and majority are the unfortunate motorcyclists. And the police will pocket MORE FINES in the process. So Pak Lah, your wish cannot come true unless you tell everyone to stay at home.
No one "dies" before his or her time. The choice , manner and time of death iare always yours. When the soul is ready to release the body, when it has accomplished what it came here to do, it moves on. Therefore, in this case, the majority of motorcyclist was ready.
Their daily dare devil stunts in reckless riding may reveal that they hold the strong belief that old age represents a degradation of the spirit and an insult to the body. Slow death in a hospital or an experience with an illness would be unthinkable to this group of people.
What is their choice? They would prefer to choose the experience – the drama, even the terror when that occurs - to die young like a hero and leave physical life in a blaze of perception; battling for your life at a point of challenge, “fighting” and not acquiescent
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Dream on Abdullah, zero accidents achievable
Zero Accident Target Achievable, Says Abdullah;
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 17 (Bernama) -- The government wants zero accidents on the roads, especially during the festive season, and Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi believes this is achievable though many may consider it impossible. The prime minister said it could be achieved because studies showed that road accidents were caused by the human factor, not vehicle or poor road conditions.
"If a faulty car can be fixed, if a road in poor condition can be repaired, surely the bad attitude of drivers can be corrected," he said at the Internal Security Ministry's monthly assembly here. Abdullah, who is also Internal Security Minister, said road safety was the responsibility of all road users, not just the police.
One of the causes of road accidents was non-observance of the speed limit which led to careless driving and tragedy not only for the drivers but also their passengers, he said.
"Accidents can be avoided, reduced, prevented," Abdullah said, expressing sadness that too many accidents had occurred during the festive season.
He said every death from road accident was a loss to the country's human capital because of the money spent on training the people."Road accident fatalities not only cause loss to the families and friends but also sadden the country," he said."The parents may not get to celebrate Hari Raya because they have to be with their injured children in the hospital and the most heart-rending is if they come home to the morgue," he said.
The family would have nowhere to turn to if the dead was the sole breadwinner, he said, adding that road accident fatalities could cause losses to the country and race in so many ways. As such, he advised motorists to drive carefully and hold to the saying "better late than never".
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KUALA SELANGOR, Oct 16 (Bernama) -- Traffic police will not put up roadblocks during the Ops Sikap XI which starts Tuesday until Oct 31, in conjunction with the festive season, to ensure smoother traffic flow.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said the measure was aimed at enabling those who wanted to "balik kampung" for the Deepavali and Hari Raya to travel in reasonable comfort.
"There will be no roadblocks but we will stop motorists who flout traffic regulations including summoning them at the roadside," he added.
He was speaking at a media conference after launching the "Careful Driving Safe Arrival" Campaign in conjunction with Ops Sikap 2006, here Monday.About 5,000 policemen and officers would be deployed during the festive season, he said.
ABOVE & BELOW: Cameras are still hidden in elevated watch-towers and huts to allow people to speed and and catch them to make more fines. Why can't they display themselves openly, which is more effective to reduce speeding?
"Police chiefs throughout the country have also been directed to step up vigilance in housing areas to ensure no untoward incidence occurred while the residents were away."
Traffic police would also carry out 24-hour patrols along highways during the festive period, he said. He warned motorists not to flout traffic regulations during the period or they would be slapped with the maximum fines of RM300 for offences such as speeding, overtaking at double lines, beating traffic lights and other offences which cause accidents.
ABOVE & BELOW: The candid cameras are used to trap more speding motorists in order to get more fines. Why can't they puchased MORE dummy ones and placed them every Km to "frighten" motorists to reduce speed?
Earlier, Musa said 3,784 accidents which led to 4,177 deaths were recorded in the country from January to August this year.
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Belted Rear Seat Passengers Can Protect Drivers In Accidents By Alan Ting
Prof Dr Radin Umar Radin Sohadi said the impact during an accident could be "very harmful" to the people not wearing the safety belt.
"During the impact, rear seat passengers can not only be killed (if they do not wear the safety belt) but they can even cause the deaths of the people in the front seats because the impact during a crash can be equivalent to two tonnes," he told Bernama Monday.
Radin Umar, who is deputy vice-chancellor (Academic and International Affairs) of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), said that during a crash, the weight impact would increase tremendously and this could be harmful to the passengers not wearing the safety belt.
Therefore, he said, it was advisable for the rear seat passengers to wear the safety belt although it was not mandatory for them to do so at the moment. Currently, only the driver and the front passenger are required to wear the safety belt.
Radin Umar also said that there was a close relationship between the volume of traffic and the number of road accidents because when the volume of traffic increased, the roads would reach their capacity and there would be congestion.
"This will really test the patience of road users," he said, adding that impatient drivers were prone to make errors, experience lapses in concentration or violate traffic rules.
"When under pressure, such as frustration due to the length of a journey, drivers tend to disregard traffic rules.
"That is why we request everybody to respect the system. If we fail to respect the system, the system will fail. Failure to respect the system will encourage people to make more mistakes, which will contribute to accidents," he added.
He said reduction of the speed limit had been scientifically proven to contribute to fewer road accident fatalities, provided there was ample enforcement.” Some countries even achieve up to 36 per cent reduction in road accidents when the speed limit is reduced and there is stricter enforcement," he said.
Radin Umar also advised motorists returning to their hometowns during the coming festive season to exercise extra caution when on the road.
"There is a need to respect the whole system, particularly during the 'balik kampung' rush as they will pass through small towns along the way. In these small towns, there are pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists," he reminded.
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Biggest Ever Ops Sikap XI For Festive Season
ABOVE: Top Female Federal Traffic Cop commanding respect
Federal traffic chief SAC II Nooryah Mohamed Anvar said Friday that the operation would continue until Oct 31 as an exodus from the city was expected due to the Deepavali and Aidilfitri double celebrations on Oct 21 and Oct 24 respectively.
"This is the biggest number of police officers taking part in the history of Ops Sikap, which enters its 11th edition since 2001. Early this year, under Ops Sikap X, 4,929 personnel were involved.
"This year's figure comprises 327 high-ranking officers, 4,612 lower ranks and 615 support personnel. The main focus will be on federal roads where the accident rate is high.
"We need the extra manpower as we aim to reduce the number of fatalities which saw 212 deaths last year, an increase of 3.3 per cent from 2004 with 205 deaths," she told a news conference at the police headquarters in Bukit Aman here.
The high number of road accidents recorded last year (13,153) and the high fatality rate have become a nagging problem for the government and various measures have been put in place to counter the problem.
Road accidents in the country, said to be one of the highest in the region, had drawn special attention from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who, as late as last week, expressed concern and sadness over road accident-related deaths during double celebrations.
Nooryah said police had identified 42 accident-prone areas on federal roads nationwide, six dangerous stretches on state roads and four on municipal roads.
"We will station 222 police personnel on federal roads, 87 on highways and 15 more on municipal roads. They will be monitoring the traffic situation 24 hours as well as conducting frequent patrols on these roads," she said.
According to a federal traffic police study, three roads in each state had been identified as high risk.
In Perlis, the high risk roads are KM9-KM12 Jln Kangar-Alor Star, KM12-KM14 Jln Kangar-Kodiang, KM5.5-KM12 Jln Kangar-Padang Besar; Kedah (KM20-KM26 Jln Alor Star-Sg. Petani-Kota Sarang Semut, KM31-53 Jln Sg. Petani-Butterworth, KM20-KM 35 Jln Baling-Sg. Petani).
Penang (Jln Masjid Negeri, Jln Chain Ferry-Jln Bumbong Lima, KM5-KM10 Penang Bridge-Seberang Perai), Perak (KM30-KM43 Jln Ipoh-Lumut-Perak Tengah, KM42-KM49 Jalan Teluk Intan-Manjung and KM14-KM 18 Jln Ipoh-Butterworth).
Selangor (KM32-KM72 Jln Kuala Selangor-Teluk Intan (Sabak Bernam), Jln Kuala Lumpur-Seremban (Kajang) and Jln Putra Permai/Seri Kembangan/Serdang Raya).
Kuala Lumpur (Jln Ipoh, Jln Kepong and Jln Tun Razak), Negri Sembilan (Jln Bahau-Keratong, KM6-KM14 Jln Seremban-Tampin and KM5-KM18 Jln Pantai Port Dickson), Melaka (KM21.3-KM24.7 Jln Sungai Udang-Melaka town, KM17-KM32 Jln Melaka-Muar and KM1-KM 14 Jln Hang Tuah-Paya Rumput).
Johor (KM6-KM31 of the Pasir Gudang highway, KM32 Jln Johor Baharu-Air Hitam and KM5-KM9 Jln Batu Pahat-Kluang), Pahang (KM11-KM35 Jlan Kuantan-Kemaman, KM18-KM45 Jln Lipis-Merapoh and KM123-KM165 Jln Kuantan-Kuala Lumpur), Terengganu (KM4-KM8 Jln Kuala Terengganu-Kelantan, KM151-KM159 Jln Kuala Terengganu-Kuantan and KM93-KM 108 Jln Jerangau-Jabor).
Kelantan (KM4-KM15 Jln Kota Baharu-Machang, KM24-KM28 Jln Machang-Kuala Krai and KM1-KM 12 Jln Gua Musang-Kuala Krai), Sabah (KM1-KM50 Jln Apas-Tawau, KM1-KM21 Jln Apas-Tawau, KM1-KM21 Jln Tuaran-Kota Kinabalu and KM13-KM52 Jln Labuk-Sandakan) and Sarawak (KM29 Jln Kuching-Serian, Jln Sibu-Tatau and KM20-KM 91 Jln Miri-Bintulu).
Nooryah said apart from concentrating on these roads, police would also station emergency response teams comprising police, Fire and Rescue services,
The 16 locations are the PLUS office in Gurun, and Juru, Taiping, Kuala Kangsar toll plazas, Tapah, Slim River, Rawang PLUS offices, Nilai lay-by and rest and recreation area, Senawang, Tangkak, Yong Peng, Sedenak toll plazas, Genting Sempah and Temerloh toll plazas, Gambang rest and recreation area and the Ayer Keroh integrated rescue squad headquarters.
On the reduction of speed limits on federal roads, mooted recently to reduce accidents, the federal police chief said police had just received the gazette on the matter.
Two weeks ago the government decided to reduce the speed limit of federal roads from 90kph to 80kph while those with 80kph limit would be reduced to 70kph.
"For the expressways and highways the speed limit will remain at 110kmph. Besides that, heavy vehicles will be restricted from using these roads on Oct 20, 21, 27 and 28," Nooryah said.
ABOVE & BELOW: Air survillence aircraft flying low used to frighten motorist with thier noise. 
The police will also conduct air surveillance through their Air Surveillance Unit and will have three watch towers for this purpose at KM270 North (Nilai, Negri Sembilan), KM306 South (Gua Tempurung, Perak) and KM424 North (Rawang, Selangor).
"During Ops Sikap XI, traffic police will be imposing a maximum fine of RM300 for five major road offences -- speeding, beating the red lights, cutting queue, using the emergency lane and beating the double-line -- and for non-fatal road accidents," Nooryah said.
Traffic police have set up a 24-hour traffic operations room and can be reached at: Hotline 03-27184445, 03-27184444, 03-27184442, 03-27184443 or fax to 03-27184440 and 03-27184441.
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5,554 Policemen To Control Traffic During Raya
PETALING JAYA, Oct 13 (Bernama) -- The Police will deploy 5,554 personnel to monitor and control traffic along major highways in an effort to reduce fatal road accidents during the Deepavali-Hari Raya festive season.
"They (policemen) are drawn from the Traffic Unit, General Operations Force (GOF) and the Federal Reserve Unit (FRU)," Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan told reporters at the launching ceremony of a festive season road safety campaign at private television station TV3's headquarters in Bandar Utama here Friday.
The campaign, in the form of television clip and jingle, is organised by the station's owner, Media Prima Bhd. For many years
"We would like to gather public opinion and suggestions before accidents happen and not after. We have to try to find ways to prevent tragedies happening on our roads especially during festive seasons.
"At the moment, only a handful of people are giving their views and suggestions. We want more...," he said
The jingle and clip will be broadcast by Media Prima's television networks -- TV3, 8TV, NTV7 and TV9 as well as its radio stations -- Hot FM and Fly FM starting Friday until the second week of Hari Raya.
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