Road Safety High On Security Meeting Agenda
By Azran Aziz
09 May 2001
PAHANG, Malaysia -- Road safety awareness will be high on the agenda of the next meeting of the Pahang Security Committee, Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob said today.
Adnan, who is the State Security director, said an integrated approach would be adopted to check the alarming increase in the number of fatal accidents.
The Education Department which will spearhead the efforts, will be asked to get schools to step up road safety awareness programmes for students, he said.
Adnan said the rise in fatal accidents in the State was a cause for concern.
Even the Tengku Mahkota of Pahang has expressed his concern over this development, he said, adding that the national statistics of an average of 16 deaths on the country's roads daily was very disturbing.
On May 3, a woman and her two children died in an accident between a Proton Saga and a timber lorry at the traffic light intersection along the Kuantan-Kuantan Port by-pass, near the Indera Mahkota Youth Complex.
A day earlier, the Pahang mufti's wife and two children died after the Perodua Kancil they were travelling in was involved in a crash with a lorry laden by gas cylinders at KM17 Jalan Kuantan-Pekan.
There have been numerous fatal accidents along the Tun Abdul Razak Highway, linking this district and Segamat. The worst was on March 11 when a family of seven were killed in an accident involving a van and a trailer lorry.
Adnan said he would chair the meeting, although it was normally presided by State Secretary Datuk Zainal Abidin Mat Said.
"In most of the cases, accidents were attributed to human error," he said. "The State Government, on its part, will try to further improve the roads."
Source: The New Straitstimes, Malaysia. 
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