
*Ensure your care is recently serviced.
*Plan the route you intend to take in advance and get sufficient rest.
*Pick the safest route possible as your vehicle will most likely be full
*Do not overload your vehicles
*Ensure there is enough space, child seats/ boosters and seatbelts. |
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*Check tyre condition, pressure and wear rate of your tyres.
*Underinflated tyres and overloaded vehicles are the leading causes of tyre failure.
*Vehicles with properly inflated tyres will benefit from reduced tyre wear, prolonged usage and better fuel consumption. |
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*Drivers travelling at higher speeds has less time to identify and stop in time.
*A 10% increase in average speed leads to a 21%, increase in all injuries a 33%, increase in fatal and severe injuries, and a 46% increase in fatal accident.
*Only 14.3% of Malaysians comply with the speed llimit on expressways. |
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*Tailgating often causes rear-end collisions which lead to various type of neck injury or whiplash.
*Vehicles need to stay two second behind the vehicles in front. At 60km/h, keep a distance of 33m between vehicles.
*Cars travelling at higher speeds need to keep further from the vehicles in front of them, and more when roads are wet.
*Driving at less than the recommended two-second rule means it is less likely a vehicles can stop in during a crash. |
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*Queue jumping can make others feel annoyed and also angry.
*Once a driver is agitated, many other negative behaviours such as speeding and tailgating will arise.
*Queue jumping is a main offence leading to a maximum fine of rm300.
*Satistics show that 2, 853 accidents occured due to queue jumping.
*Side wipes claimed 377 lives. |
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*Driver are four times more likely to have are fatal crash if they drive between 10pm and dawn.
*Don't ignore early warning signs such as yawning, poor concentration, tired eyes, restlessness, drowsiness, slow reactions, boredom and over steering
*Try to take short breaks at least every two hours
*Stop when are you tired or share driving.
* A power nap of only twenty minutes can boost energy levels.
*Avoid smoking as nicotine and carbon monoxide hamper night vision.
*Caffeine provides a quick, but short-lived spurt in alertness
*Drink water, eat fruit and healthy snacks instead. |
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*Only 65% of motorcyclists comply with the helmet regulation.
*If you decide use motorcycle for "balik kampung", please wear your safety helmet properly or use public transport as an alternative.
*Make sure that your safety helmet is SIRIM-approved. |
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*A driver is four times more likely to have an accident if he uses the mobile phone while driving.
*Even a hands-free kit can affect the driver's concentration. |
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*In a crash, unrestrained rear occupants increases the death risk of front passengers by nearly five times. |
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*Beating the red light increases the probability of a side-collision, resulting in severe injuries.
*Side collisions constitudted about 14.6% of fatal accidents in 2007, which lead to 936 deaths. |
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