Monday, June 30, 2008

SPATES OF “EXPRESS BUS” ACCIDENTS

We’ve been hearing a lot about accidents involving express busses which had claimed numerous lives. The next day, the authorities made press statement, among others, saying that the express the bus drivers involved in the accidents had multiple summonses some came as close to 30; both the Police Department as well as the Road Transport Department. How satirical!!!!

The world (if I’m not mistaken) has acknowledged the Multimedia Super Corridor locate in Cyberjaya as the new Silicon Valley with its up-to-date super infrastructure to cater to the needs of the development in the information technology.

Most (by now, may be all) government departments including especially the Police Department and the Road Transport Department have been well equipped with computer systems, hardwares and softwares that enable them to store and analyse information on road users including the summonses “incurred” by express bus’s drivers.

For the public, especially the victims’ families, to be told that the bus drivers had already have 20 to 30 summonses in hand after the fateful accidents is really too much for us to chew. I’m pretty sure that the information system that they now possess should be able to figure out well in advance of who’s who list of culprits and act accordingly well before they took the wheels heading for a showdown on our road system.

I personally urge the Traffic Police and the Road Transport Department to act pro-actively by reprimanding these culprits before they had any chance of making history in Malaysia again and again and again …………………………. Life is so sacred; or is it?

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