PUTRAJAYA: Motorists have been reminded to be more cautious during the holiday break and to treat accidents as they would the A(H1N1) virus.
Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said they must realised that road accidents, like the virus, were killers.
He said road accidents could be prevented if people paid serious attention to road safety.
“We have to remind road users from time to time about road safety, and I believe with the reminders, we can definitely reduce road accidents,” he said after launching the ministry’s CARE road campaign at the Dengkil rest stop along the North-South Central Link here yesterday.
Shaziman said CARE which stood for cermat, adad sopan, berfikir rasional and etika, (careful, courteous, think rationally and be ethical) would be a consistent programme to increase the public road safety awareness, and not just a campaign for the festive seasons.
The CARE campaign is spearheaded by the Works Ministry, Public Works Depart-ment, Malaysian Highway Authority and 26 road concessionaires.
He said they hoped to promote CARE via advertisements in major newspapers, radio and the Inter-net.
The ministry expects 1.4 million vehicles to use the highways and expressways a day during the Raya exodus period.
Meanwhile, Ops Sikap figures released by police showed that seven people died and 874 accidents occurred on Sunday - the first day of the operation’s 20th edition.
Bukit Aman said in a statement that five of the deaths occurred on federal roads and one each on state and municipal roads.
Four of the victims were travelling in vehicles, two were pillion riders and one was a pedestrian.
Municipal roads recorded the highest number of accidents at 430 cases, followed by federal roads (186), state roads (122), highways (90) and other roads (46).
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