MP: New traffic fines will spur corruption


Faced with a choice of carrying to bombard out a minimum RM300 for infringing a law or paying contend RM50 to disremember a offence, a smart income would be upon a phonetic "escape clause".
TAWAU: The Road Transport (Amendment) Bill 2012 which proposes aloft fines for trade offences from a "no fixed amount" to a minimum of RM300 is upon trial to have drivers reaching for a wallets in Sabah when they have been stopped upon a road.
Traffic offenders in a country have already made it a habit to pay off trade police who have been ready to spin a blind eye for some inducement.
Faced with a choice of carrying to bombard out a minimum RM300 for infringing a law or paying contend RM50 to disremember a offence, a smart income would be upon a phonetic "escape clause".
Tawau MP Chua Soon Bui is between those who believe which whilst a intention is good, a conditions in a country do not assent such ill-thought plans to move down a high incidence of trade accidents.
The sweeping RM300 excellent covers such offences as unapproved series plates (RM300-RM3,000), shabby pushing looseness (RM300-RM2,000), speeding (RM300-RM2,000), lapsed or no Puspakom assent (RM300-RM2,000), illegal import of unfamiliar cars (RM300-RM5,000), as well as those who disobey trade police instructions (RM300-RM2,000).
The nice check additionally requires electric bicycle cyclist to acquire pushing licences before regulating them upon public roads. The minimum age to make use of these cycles is 17-year-old as well as a electric bicycle engines have been limited to 0.25 kW or a maximum speed of 25 kilometer per hour.
Chua pronounced a doing of a minimum excellent would have a inclusive detrimental stroke upon motorists as well as travel operators in Sabah where a average income for a reduce income family groups is around RM500.
"How can a trade offenders means to pay such a steep fine. Is a supervision rebuilt to send all these offenders to prison when they can't means to pay a fine?" she asked.
She pronounced whilst she cursed reckless drivers as well as agreed which those who caused deadly accidents should be heavily penalised underneath a law, a doing of a minimum excellent of RM300 was not going to decrease a incidences of accidents.
Chua who is additionally Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) clamp boss noted which many Sabahans had described it as nonetheless another shrewd 'money-making' proceed by a supervision to squeeze income out of a people in a guise of reducing highway accidents.
She pronounced instead of 'victimising' as well as burdening a people further, a supervision should essay to find out a base causes of a prevalent highway accidents as well as seek public consultations to forestall as well as to minimize them.
While propelling a ministry endangered to teach county consiousness between highway users as well as drivers, especially a young, Chua additionally pronounced a Works Ministry should provide improved as well as safer roads with lanes for cyclists as well as motorcyclists.
She additionally urged trade authorities to put up more signs warning motorists of cameras observant their speed as studies had shown which such measures were more in effect in getting drivers to slow down rather than throwing them regulating a hand-held! speed d etectors.
"Many countries additionally exercise a presentation complement to advise a drivers of cameras ahead," she said.
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