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BEL311-ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSE 2011

The Causes of Road Accidents


Nowaday there are many accidents according in Malaysia. Due to Statistical Report Road Accident, Royal Malaysian Police Traffic accidents in Malaysia have been increasing at the average rate of 9.7% perannum over the last three decades(Nizam,2010).Accidents result from a variety of causes,there are the causes of road accidents in Malaysia,such as driver negligence, improper attitude ,use imitation equipment and the poor condition of road. The first cause of road accident is driver negligence ,the most frequently quoted factor in respect of driver behaviour included reckless driving, inattention and a lack of judgement, speeding, driver fatigue and the use of unqualified and inexperienced drivers (Pearce,2000) .Thus, this is abig problem for driver and can contribute to a cause of road accident, for example The accident of bus express occurred on the North-South Expressway, which runs 550 miles the entire length of the country from the Thai border in the north to Johor Bahru at the southern tip of the Malaysian peninsula,has indicated the driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel (20 die in gruesome ,2007).The accident show that the driver fatigue and cannot take rest,and cause the accident to the bus express.Therefore improper attitude is a cause of road accident . Therefore, driver negligence is a cause of road accident.

The second cause is improper attitude .The driver has habits such as failing to give the correct signals when turning , speaking on handphones when driving and smoking are some of the reasons (The New Straits Times July 2002), for example the statistic of Ops Sikap launched on Tuesday which had already recorded 74 deaths in the first four days ,police had already issued 38,069 summonses to traffic offenders in the first four days of the operation (Indiscipline, negligence main cause ,2006).From the statistic it shows bad attitude from the driver in the road such as speeding and speaking on handphones when driving,it contribute summon to trafic offenders.Therefore, improper attitude is a cause of road accident.

The third cause road accidents is use of imitation equipment which can contribute to road accidents, Zainal said ,among the imitation spare parts widely used by bus companis were brake discs which were sometimes reused, while some spare parts used were not suitable for the bus models (Imitation spare parts s ,2010) .Bus company must not reuse spare parts equipment and use original equipment to prevent road accidents, but if they still use the reuse equipment such as tyre for their transportation,it can cause accident. For example if pressed many times while descending a sloping road,will get heated up and become soft and dysfunctional, hence are dangerous during emergencies and can result in accidents (Imitation spare parts s ,2010) .Therefore, use of imitation equipment is a cause of road accident.

BEL311-ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSE 2011

Lastly the factor of road accidents is the poor condition of roads .Improper design at intersection can cause significant increase of accident. In 2003, accident occurrence at intersection is the second after straight road which constitute about 22% inclusive of cross, Tor Y and staggered junction. e.g. rear end collision usually cause by improper design of right turn which did not provide enough storage lane for vehicle while wait to turn right.Other related issue to improver design in lack of safe sight distance (Nizam,2010) .For Example, the bus which was carrying 37 people onboard and was coming down from Cameron Highlands, breached a concrete divider, somersaulted and crashed roofside into the rocky slope before halting on its side in a monsoon drain at the foot of the slope. (The New Straits Times , 20 January, 2011) . Therefore,road condition is one of the cause of road accident. In conclusion, road accident has many causes such as driver negligence,use imitation equipment and poor condition of roads can contribute road accidents .So,to reduce the number of road accidents that increasingly every year government department and private agencies need to give their contribution through education and campaign among the driver to give their awareness about safetyness in the road and prevent a causes such as use imitation equpment.All road user must be discipline and respect each other to prevent road accidents.I hope that the contribution with both parties will decrease the number of road accidents.

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