Sunday, October 5, 2008

Safety on the road

Raya Aidil Fitri, I think the busiest & crowded highways were during this period (of course sometime during CNY too...)... just came back from Raya in Kuala Lumpur yesterday... I was lucky, the traffic from KL to Northern is OK... nice weather too yesterday... Bad traffic jam at few routes along PLUS from Northern Part to KL... few km jam, some that I can recalled are at Slim River, Sg. Perak, & Bukit Gantang

I observed few "bad habits" of Malaysian's driver... quite sad, can't understand the mentality of Malaysian's driver (some of them, not all of them, of course).... maybe they are "lack of knowledge" about safety, negligence, ignorance or worst case is stupid or crazy... maybe they think the highway is belong to them... they know more about the highway.... they need to rush... they using expensive car (well, human attitude "ego"). Some of the bad habits that I experienced yesterday are as below
1. Overtake like there is no tomorrow - 1 toyota camry, silver in colour, overtake my car (I think most of the cars...) from left side on the emergency lane at speed more than 140km/hr!!! "Nak mampus kali"

2. After overtake - "enter to slow lane" after overtaking a car like nobody is behind you.... no signal is given, minimal space btwn the cars.... ayoyo.... where's the driving skill??

3. Tailing - most of the Malaysian's driver think that their car's brake syst can stop the car immediately from 150km/hr to 0 km/hr... the distance between the front car & your car is <1 style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">4. The driver holding her baby while driving on the highway!!! Hemmm, teaching the baby to become Schemancher in the future, maybe.... wrong place dude....

So, what's the accident rate during Hari Raya for this year??? We will see the statistics next week...

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