As expected, those vehicles which were manufactured before certain years without being fitted with rear seat belt were also being slaps with summons by the police and Road Transport Department. The Road Safety Department has issued a statement that their summons can be cancelled as the summonses to rear passengers in vehicles not fitted with rear seat belts was against the ruling announced by the road safety department as announced by its Director-General early this year. Even those types of vehicles need to be identified by a special sticker "an exemption stickers" as they did not have the three 'points' that were needed to fit rear seat belts.
Well for those types of vehicles without being fitted with the rear seat belt, I don't think that it is much safer in terms of its body strength upon high impact collision. I suggests that the next items that the Road Safety Department should look into is the safety aspect of the vehicles body so that only those vehicles that pass stringent safety requirements should be allowed on the road.
Showing posts with label rear passenger seat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rear passenger seat. Show all posts
17 January, 2009
05 November, 2008
What About the Fourth Passenger?
According to this report, it has not been decided whether the fourth passenger will be summoned for not wearing rear seat belt since the normal saloon car is only equipped with three seat belts. The normal size of Malaysian family is more than four people including the passenger and they will be more likely wanted to know whether they are allowed to carry all of their family members in one saloon car. What they have to do is upgrade to MPV or van if they can afford it. Otherwise they have to wait for the decision later.
15 February, 2008
Rear Seat Belt
The importance of rear seat belt for rear passenger seat is very important. In the case of accident, the probability of fatalities involving rear passenger will be reduced tremendously by using rear seat belts.
"According to 2006 data compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 58.2 percent of all rear seat fatalities involved passengers who were not wearing seat belts, compared to 32.7 percent of fatalities for rear seat passengers who were wearing seat belts."
"According to 2006 data compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 58.2 percent of all rear seat fatalities involved passengers who were not wearing seat belts, compared to 32.7 percent of fatalities for rear seat passengers who were wearing seat belts."
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