Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Driver Behavior


Driver Behavior



Nowadays, road accidents are very common in Malaysia. Everyday we read newspaper we also can saw many news about there are many people involved in the road accidents. First of all, what is means by road accidents? Road accidents are means that when some automobile crash together or the vehicle crash on the side of the road or the peoples at the road. According to the sources from Royal Malaysian Police, there is a statistic mentioning the number of the road accidents from the year 1998 until the year 2006. I realize that the total numbers of road accidents happen in each year of the year 1998 until year 2006 are reach six digit of number. This is huge and terrible numbers, and from the statistic it also stated that five to six thousands peoples dead in a year because of involved in the road accidents. On the other hand, it also means that, every year there is five to six thousands peoples losing of their love member such as, love partner, family members and so on. The number of road accidents is also increased from the year 1998 until the year 2006. The number of road accidents is increased from three hundred thousand until five hundred thousand.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            There[1] are many types of vehicle on the road, such as motorcycle, bus, car, taxi and goods vehicle. According to the statistic from the Royal Malaysian Police, it claims that, car is like the water in a human body, it stand 75% to 80% out of all types of vehicle which carried the number two hundred thousand to four hundred thousand out of the total road accident happen in the year 1998 until 2006. As we know that, Malaysia is a multinational country, there are many different types of religion in Malaysia. All different types of religion will celebrate their own festival such as Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Chinese New Years, Happy Deepavali and so on. Almost all M[2]alaysian will go back to the hometown for the celebration. During the season of the festival, road accident will happen more often compare to the normal day. According to Legal Match, they believe that, there are several causes of road accident such as, the behaviour of driver, mechanical failure, road conditions and also weather. We as a Malaysian we need to reduce the number of road accident by some solutions. Let's discuss about the first categorize of road accidents which is because of the driver behaviour. According to Legal Match, they agree that driver behaviour is one of the causes of road accident, and they also claim that there are 98% of road accidents happen because of the distracted driver. There are many types of driver behaviour that will cause road accident and most of the driver would not realize that those actions are dangerous while driving.

The first types of driver behaviour that will cause road accidents are on phone while driving. Mobile phone now is very advanced in technologies even can watch television programs by online. Some of the drivers use this kind of technologies while they are driving. As we know that we just have a pair of eyes and we cannot watch the road and the phone on the same time. On this situation we will lack of concentration and it will cause us involve in the road accident. Besides that, some driver also use the mobile phone to sending Short Messages Services and on call whiles they driving. The second types of driver behaviour are the driver adjusting the radio or the CD player while they driving. After we finish heard the CD we will change[3] another CD for some different songs. Let's imagines if the car in on drive and the driver are trying to find for the other CD from the dashboard, this is will cause some of the moment the driver will not notice the conditions of the front road and this will cause the accident occur. There are also high possible chances of accidents will happen if we are trying to adjust the radio tunnel when we are driving. The third types of driver behaviour are drunk driving.                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                   According to the articles by Alcohol Problems and Solutions they insist that a driver with high blood alcohol content (BAC) has the higher risk will involve in car accidents. This is because when a person with high BAC will affect the person coordination and this have been proved by Alcohol Problems and Solutions. There is an experiment show that, a person is trying to write such words “Drinking doesn't affect my driving” before drunk and after drunk. The result show that, the person after drunk will write the words more blur and unallocated. On the other hand, it also means that if we are drunk driving we will drive in the blur condition, and it will cause road accident. Rubbernecking and tailgating also the causes of road accidents. First of all, what is means by rubbernecking? According to Legal Match they claim that, rubbernecking is the driver slow down their cars watching what is going on because of their curiosity and tailgating is means by the driver are follow the front car with a very close distance. When on the highway there is an accidents happen, some of the people will because of curios slow down their cars to watch what was happen, but if there are a person on tailgating the accidents will happen. This is because if there is highway all people are driving with speed and the sit[4]uation is tailgating. Thus the person will unable to break their car immediately and the tailgating car will crash on the rubbernecking car.

O you who have believed, do not consume one another's wealth unjustly but only [in lawful] business by mutual consent. And do not kill yourselves [or one another]. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful. [4:29]
Past and present, there are lots of stories that related to road accidents. One of the stories is a Universiti Malaya (UM) student from China was killed after she was hit by a car while crossing Jalan [5]Universiti here. The victim, Xiao Xiao,18, was walking across to her car near a supermarket to return to her residence in UM when the incident occured at 9.30pm Saturday. A witness known only as Johnson, 24, said Xiao Xiao, a semester one student business administration, was hit by a speeding Nissan Sylphy. "My best friend Xiao Xiao suffered head injuries. I only knew her for one year and hope police can take appropriate action," he said. He said the car driver stoped the vehicle and later made a police report at the Petaling Jaya police headquarters. Xiao Xiao's remains were sent to Kuala Lumpur Hospital and later claimed by her cousin to be taken back to China. Meanwhile, a Petaling Jaya police source said police had recorded a statement from the driver and several people to help in investigations."According to eyewitness reports, the victim crossed the road suddenly causing the Nissan driver to slam on the brakes," he added. Anyone with information on the case can contact the Petaling Jaya police at 03-79662222. The case is investigated under Section 41 (1) of Road Transport Act.

Then, the next story goes like this, Seberang Prai Municipal councillor Bakhtiar Appandi Yahya died after being involved in an accident with a lorry in Taman Desa Sena Indah here Thursday. The driver, in his 30s, was beaten up by the witnesses, armed with crash helmets, when he came down from his lorry to check on Bakhtiar's condition. He had to be rescued by a police team. He was then sent to the Kepala Batas Hospital where he was warded with head and body injuries. His lorry was torched. The 56-year old two-term councillor, a pest control company branch manager, was said to be heading to his Lorong Desa Sena 11 home on a motorcycle when the incident happened at about 5pm.He died on the spot due to head and body injuries. Fellow councillor S. Guanalan said he had just met Bakhtiar in a meeting at the coucil headquarters in Bandar Perda, Bukit Mertajam, at 2.30pm. “I was chatting with him after the meeting ended at 4pm, and he left for home several minutes later. I could not believe it when I head the tragic news later.”Council president Maimunah Mohd Sharif said she was shocked to hear of Bakhtiar's sudden demise, noting that fellow council employees and councillors would miss him. “He was a jovial person and I remember him dancing when I sang a song during the council's Hari Anugerah ceremony in the Bertam Sports Complex recently.”She added that it would be a sad day at the full council meeting Friday, noting that council secretary Roz[6]ali Mohamud would proceed to read aloud the answers to the written questions which Bakhtiar had submitted earlier. Bakhtiar's remains were buried at Masjid Kampung Bonggol, here at 11pm Thursday night.

I've heard about quote that sounded like this “Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates.  So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game.  Sure, once in a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting.  In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper”. This quote was spoken by Howard Nordberg one of the international scholars. This quote  might be related with an accident because every accident may lead to death. Therefore, this life was so easy to be lost and in the end every man will face to death like what was said in the quote above. Then, the second advice from international scholars is from Charles Sanders Peirce. It sounded like this ”If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seei[7]ng the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery.  He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does.  In place of this we have death”. So it does means that everyone cannot avoid death because people do not last forever. In term of this case, accident definitely may leads to death so everyone cannot predict when it will happens and how to avoid it.

While, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jailani has said that “it is impossible to lay hands on that which is not predestined for us, and that which is predestined for us will reach us wherever we are”. Generally, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jailani is one of the famous Islamic scholars that muslims should be proud of all his kindness in all aspects. The relation to the accident is that an inevitable destiny for every fate is already determined ever since by ALLAH S.W.T. Thus, we cannot avoid from accident and death and we absolutely don’t know when is the end of our’s life. The second Islamic scholar is Hassan al-Basri said that “whoever follows patience, success will follow him”. That means patience is everything for us to succeed in life. So, while driving we must be patience and be calm to make sure everything goes smoothly.

In my opinion, everyone must follow the rules set by the relevant authorities and everyone also have to follow the ways set safety while driving vehicles. Every accident cannot be avoided by everyone and it is often fatal that cannot be described. Therefore, we must trust in God for everything that happens.[8] Government should plan some effective solution for reduce traffic accidents in future. Everyone need to be alert of the surroundings when driving. Drivers should try to be patient and understanding while driving. Some of the ways of prevention of road accident must be submitted to conclude thi[9]s. We as a Malaysian we need to reduce the number of road accidents. We cannot let the number of road accident increase anymore. First of all, we need to do best on our own responsibility. There are some solutions to reduce the number of road accidents. “Car maintenance” is one of the solutions. We need to ensure our car is being service on the fixed particular period. This is for check out whether our car is still on safe conditions for us to drive or there is any mechanical failures occur such as break failure, tires, wipers, and so on. Besides that, “rest” it is also a very significant rule that we need to be prepare before we drive. We need to ensure that we have enough sleep before we are drive. This is to make sure that when the muggy day we not easily get to asleep. Furthermore, with enough rest we can be more patient, put more effort to control our emotion and pay more attention while drive. Everyday before we go out we need to read the news of weather forecast. We need to ensure that the day is good weather and would not have any storming rain, if there are storming rain try to avoid go out. Mobile phone and cigarette should keep away while on driving. Try to avoid using mobile phone sending short message services and do not smoke while driving. As we know that, god just created a pair of hand for us to live in this world. If we use a hand to smoke or using mobile phone we would not have enough hand to control the steering while we take U-turn. The last matter we need to do prevention is not involved in drunk driving. Drunk driving is very dangerous we need to remember that, there is always some significant person in our life waiting for us to go back home with safety.

As a conclusion, there are a lot causes of road accidents but the main causes of road accidents occur is because of driver behaviour. I think moral are play a very significant role in our life, it teach us how to love other person and ourselves but before we love other person we need to learn how to love ourselves and appreciate the life that have been given by god for us. We as a driver, we need to responsibility for what we have done, cannot done some actions that might cause accident occur or injury other person such as, on phone while driving, drunk driving and so on. Those actions are really dangerous if we do it when we are drive because we cannot control the car well with doing such actions. Remember that, our family member are [10]always worried about us and carried about us. There is no peoples are wishing to involve in a road accidents, it is really a tragedy it make a lot of people lost of their family member. Besides that, all Malaysian should be cooperating to reduce the number of road accidents and our slogan “Malaysia Boleh”.

O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with the patient. [2:153]






[1] Abdul Rahman, N, Road safety situation in Malaysia n.d. Retrieved: November 13, 2007,
[2] Common causes of car accidents lawyers n.d. Retrieved: November 12, 2007
[3] Royal Malaysian Police, Table 1.10 n.d. Retrieved: November 13, 2007
[4] Desktop Reference for Crash Reduction Factors Report No. FHWA-SA-07-015, Federal Highway Administration September, 2007
[5] University Malaya, The Star, Star Publications (Malaysia) Berhad, 2008.
[6] By Bakhtiar Appandi Yahya, The New Straight Times (Malaysia) Berhad, 2010
[7] Brilliant quotes, 1001 questions about life, page 230, year 1922
[8]  Charles, Geoffrey (11 March 1969). "Cars And Drivers Accident prevention instead of blame". The Times.
[9] Jack A. Regan, John D. Lee, and Kristie L. Young, Violation of Traffic Rules, CAC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 629, 2009.
[10] Mr Farland, Ross A, Human Variables in Motor Vehicle Accidents, Boston, Mass: Harvard School of Public Health 1998, page 211, year 1989

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