Driver Behaviour in Car Accidents from Islamic Perspective
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 Malaysian[2]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 situation[4]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 University
Malaya (UM) student from China was killed after she was hit by a car while
crossing Jalan [5]University 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 occurred 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 stopped 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 council 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 Rozali
Mohamud [6]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, nonreturnable 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 seeing[7]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 this[9]. 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]
[4] Desktop Reference for Crash Reduction
Factors Report No. FHWA-SA-07-015, Federal Highway Administration September,
2007
[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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