Ops Tak Selamat

2012
19,937 accidents
243 d e a t h s

Best of roads, misfortune of drivers. The military ditched Ops Sikap for Ops Selamat this year to step up a government of traffic during a Hari Raya period. The stats were out yesterday. The IGP himself took wish to announce a decrease in a series of highway crashes as well as fatalities during a two-week campaign.

But was Ops Selamat a success? Far from it. On a contrary, it's as bad as ever.

Qucik analysis of a numbers:
Syukur alhamdulillah, a series of accidents as well as deaths dropped this year. The final Ops Sikap Hari Raya in 2011 was bad:

2011
19,606 accidents
289 deaths

But - as well as this is a suffering in a butt - a actuality is that's not a genuine improvement. Previous years' records uncover a yo-yo trend in highway accidents as well as fatalities -

One year it's up ...

2009
17,332 accidents
241 deaths

The next year, it's down!

2010
16,817 accidents
218 deaths

And each year a series improves, a military contend Malaysians seem to be more wakeful now of a dangers of reckless driving.

Eg, in 2010 when a stats were good (see above), you review this story:

Today's news additionally attributed a lower series of accidents/deaths to "better attitude":

< span>NST thirty August 2012
My point is, from Ops Sikap to Ops Selamat, things have not really improved at all over a years. We have been still killing as well as maiming one an additional by a thousands each festival. Since 2001, a normal series of fatalities during Hari Raya is over 215 (read this 2009 analysis in Nut Graph). Malaysia has a most appropriate roads though a misfortune drivers, full stop. The IGP pronounced it: our drivers behave improved when watched. But if a cops watch us drive all a time, who's starting to keep an eye upon a crooks?