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A STUDY OF ROAD ACCIDENTS IN MALAYSIA.

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In a nutshell, cases of road accident in Malaysia have increasing within every year and causes dangerous scene to all people. According to this situation, all people must give attention to decrease the rate of road accident and alter the behavior of driver. Moreover, all people must cooperation with authorities such as police due to settle the problem. The road accident have many factors especially the main factor is the attitude of driver. Other of factors that causes this problem are from mechanical failure, poor road condition, climate changes and so on. Furthermore, this problem may causes bad effect to all people like physical impacts, psychological trauma, economic impacts. Thus, the rates of road accident could be reduced by various type of actions such as follow traffic rules and regulation, campaign to aggressive driver, do not drink when driving and so on. Lastly, if all people giving good support and cooperation to authorities and this problem could be settled easily and effectively. Thus, the decreasing of road accident will occurs in our country.

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Road accident is sound familiar to public nowadays. However, is that public understand about the road accident? Road accidents are means that crash between two or more automobile or the vehicle crash toward the road side or pedestrian. Road accident are a consequence of the increased mobility of today's society. According to LegalMatch( n.d), by Ken LaMance, the common causes of road accidents are the behavior of driver, mechanical failure, road conditions and also weather.

The main cause of road accident is the behavior of the driver. From the statistics, 98 % of car accidents involve a single distracted driver. The first behaviour of driver is on phone during driving like sending short messages service, on call and so on. This may cause the driver cannot concentration or loss concentration while driving and result in accident. The second behaviour of driver that cause the occur of road accident is adjusting the radio or the CD player during driving. This is because during adjusting, the driver not notice to the conditions of the road. The behavior of drunk driving is the third behaviour of driver that cause the happened of road accident. According to the articles by Alcohol Problems and Solutions (n.d) they insist that a driver with high blood alcohol content (BAC) has the higher risk to involve in car accidents. This is because when a person with high BAC will affect the person coordination. After drunk, the driver lose the ability to focus during driving, they cannot function properly and the driver will drive in blur condition. Besides that, rubbernecking and tailgating also cause the happened of road accident. What is the means by rubbernecking and tailgating? Rubbernecking means that the drivers slowing down their cars to watch what is going on while tailgating means by the driver are follow the front car with a very close distance. The accident occur when the vehicle in front stop their car abruptly because they feel curious on what had happened while the following car which tailgating could not stop their vehicles immediately.

Other than that, mechanical failure also is the cause of road accident. The malfunction of breaking system, car wipers, signals lights and many more are the examples of mechanical failure. The lack of breaking system cause the car cannot stop when driving or during emergency. So, the malfunction of breaking system is very dangerous to the driver and also passenger from time to time. The car wipers out of function may cause road accident because if suddenly heavy rain until cannot look clear at the front of the road when drive, the driver need to stop their car beside the road. This cause other driver does not notice the stopped car and crash the vehicle. Tires are the most important feature for vehicles. The blow of tires will cause lost of control and crash on the side of the road or other car on road.

Another cause of road accident is the road condition. Road in bad condition like oily road, potholes, deadly curves and so on will increase the risk of road accident. Oily road may cause the driver to easily lost of control because the tires cannot function in normal condition when face the oil and drift on road. Potholes on the road may cause the tires to blow out and lost control. Deadly curve is also known as dead man's curve because many motorists have lost control of their cars along the dangerous curve.

The last cause of road accident is the weather. Weather is unpredictable because this is a natural phenomena that cannot control by human being. In Malaysia, raining season and muggy day are normal weather. During raining season, it is hard to look clear at the front road because of over heavy rain and difficult to control the car. During muggy day, the driver is easily to get asleep during drive because the situation is very comfortable and cool. So, this may lead to the road accident.

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Naturally we often hear about the issue of road accidents in our country whether on the radio, newspapers or television. This is because the issue of road accidents in our country is gradually increasing from year to year. Furthermore, our country Malaysia has been listed as a country that had the highest number of deaths due to road accidents. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Status Report on road safety, motorists Malaysia is listed as the worst in Southeast Asia with an average of 23.8 deaths per 100,000 population over the next 12 years. Malaysia also ranked third of fatal accidents per billion kilometers, with the risk of death in a road accident at 17.7 deaths. We can take an example, every day on television and newspapers will never appear hesitant road accidents. According to the online resource  said that almost every minute, there was an road accident in Malaysia with about 18 people killed every day. According to an online source, statistics of road accidents in Malaysia showed an increase on an annual basis. Statistics in 2015 showed that 6706 people have died in about 489 600 road accidents last year than in 2014 show that 6674 people have died in road accidents. This is 32 more than the number of deaths recorded in 2014. While statistics were injured in road accidents in 2015 also showed that 14,729 people were injured in a road accident. In 2014 showed that 13,030 people were injured in a road accident. This is 1700 people injured in road accidents over the figure recorded in 2014.

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Car accidents usually results in damage to someone or something as it is a condition in which one vehicle collides with another vehicle or some object in the road. Sometimes, bad weather or environmental conditions also lead to car accidents. According to the article from The Malay Mail Online published on 28 of January, a total of 18 people were reported killed daily in road accidents nationwide in year 2015. So, in order to decrease the number of deaths everyday, there are some tips that can help us prevent car accidents.

The first tip is to follow traffic rules and regulations. Another thing that should be considered is to put on the seat belt while driving. Wearing seat belt would be annoying for many people. But, this is highly important, as wearing seat belt would decrease the chances of road accidents. Not only drivers, passengers including adults and kids are also recommended to put on seat belt.

Further, one of the best ways to avoid car accidents is to be a defensive driver and try to avoid those aggressive driver. There are going to have driver who like to speed and cut other drivers off. The best thing to do when you meet those people is to try to get yourself away from them as soon as possible. If they are hooking their horn behind you, slow down and let them pass. Do not play games with them as it will make them become more aggressive.

Other than that, do not drink and drive. When you are drinking, you do not have the same abilities that you have when you are sober, and that includes the ability to drive safely. Your judgement and your vision are going to be affected. If you are going to drink, find alternate transportation. Take a taxi or a bus. Just do not drive your own car.

Above all, driving a quality car could also help to minimize road accidents. The last tip that I would be given is do not use your smart phone while you are driving. This is extremely distracting. When you are using the phone, your hand would not be on the steering wheel and might had the chance to lose control of your car and an accident would happen. So, if you really want to use your phone, use it when you are parked.

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Every road accident comes with bad effects, sometimes life threatening injuries or even fatality. According to the online resource, the impacts of road accident can be divided into three categories, which are physical, psychological and economic.

For physical impacts, one who involved in road accident might be injured or even dead. Examples of physical impacts are bruises, cuts, burns, fractures, permanent loss of mobility and death.

Psychological trauma is also a kind of road accident impacts. According to the findings from the book, “Psychological Trauma and Addiction Treatment” by Bruce Carruth, we can be certain that it’s normal for people to respond to trauma with shock, fear, grief, hopelessness, avoidance of related stimuli and even dissociation. The feelings of guilt, depression, anxiety or fear will keep haunting the victims of road accidents until the rest of his/her life, unless certain counseling or treatment is given. Otherwise, the victim will be having post-traumatic stress. When they dissociate or disconnect, they are actually protecting themselves from overwhelming painful stimuli.

For economic impacts, one will probably be in need of money to repair the damage of property, perhaps for medical bills as well. If one loses the ability to work after the accident, it might be quite a problem for the victim to sustain the cost of living. The economic impact is not only for individual but national as well. A nation with lots of road accident per year will be having loss of productivity as the number of casualty keeps increasing. Loss of community cohesion will eventually lead to economic collapse.

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