Why isn’t Malaysia enforcing safety belt wearing at back seats?
I lost a friend who died in a car accident a couple of years ago. He was thrown out of the car while seating at the back seat. The driver and passenger at the front only suffered minor injuries, thanks to the safety belt. Safety belt does save life.
This law of wearing safety belt at rare seats is pretty common overseas. If I remember correctly Singapore, Australia and UK has enforced the law. Last time when I travelled to Europe, some countries even enforced wearing seat belts on buses.
Malaysia have a high traffic accident (and fatality rate), some of the fatality could have been prevented with some extra precautions and better laws (and enforcement).
Enforcing safety belt wearing at back seats might be one of the helpful ideas.
March 14th, 2007 at 11:35 am
mine is the other way round .. the safety belt (back seat) killed my fren on the spot in a car crash back then when i was studying in aussie .. so never believed in it anymore unless if i’m driving i’ll put it on ..
March 14th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
cp1… you mean your friend could be alive if s/he didn’t wear the seatbelt? Safety belt doesn’t guarantee 100% safety, but do give a better chance of survival imo.
March 16th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
very true .. but because i was next to him and not wearing seat belt and i was lucky nothing happen except for being unconcious for atleast 6 hours .. phew
March 16th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Luck always plays a role in everything. Sorry for your friend though…
March 16th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Anyone notice that 99% of our policeman driving a patrol car are not wearing a safety belt ? How are we to expect the enforcement of such rule?
March 16th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Dee… is it? I got to watch closely next time. I do notice them speeding quite a lot though.
March 16th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
my hubby said they are not wearing seat belt due to thier job .. if there would be any incident, urgent matter, emergency .. its kinda tough right .. as they need to be quick to react, respond and to be there ..
dunno how it is true .. happy weekend!!!
March 16th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
cp1… interesting point from your hubby.
I do believe that safety came first though… the police in patrol are perhaps more likely to meet with danger in car accidents than to meet with a gun fight or something.
And imagine when they are in pursuit, driving over 100km without seat belt… an emergency brake is enough to throw a man out of the window :p
March 18th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Hi, bump into your site due to the Advetlet vs Nufffnang post. You did a great job for that, thanks.
for this issue regarding seatbelt, I’ve got a post which shows a video of the importance of the backside seatbelt. Its quite educational…
http://ahboon.net/2006/12/11/no-seatbelt-no-excuse/
March 19th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Thanks for the compliment ahboon. Interesting videos instead.