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KUCHING: The number of fatal road accidents in Sarawak fell by 16.1 percent in the first 11 months of this year compared to the same period last year, said the state’s Transportation Minister Datuk Lee Kim Shin.
He said police statistics showed that there were 276 fatal accidents from January to November this year compared to 329 cases in the corresponding period last year, while seriously injured cases were down 30.9 percent to 123. 178 cases last year.
“The total number of traffic accidents in Sarawak from January to November last year was 19,581 while for the same period this year it was 14,570, a decrease of 5,011 cases or 25.6 percent,” he said.
Enforcement of the Movement Control Order (MCO) was one of the factors that contributed to fewer fatal accidents, he told reporters after jointly launching the Op Selamat Christmas road safety campaign with the police commissioner of Sarawak, Datuk Aidi Ismail, here today.
“We started the MCO in March and today we are under the Recovery MCO, and this has reduced the number of vehicles on the road,” he said.
Lee said his ministry had also established a state and divisional transportation committee that involves all transportation enforcement agencies as a measure to further reduce the number of traffic accidents.
He said 381,705 vehicles of various types were registered in the state in the five-year period from 2015 to October this year, representing a 75 percent increase over the previous five-year figure.
Meanwhile, Aidi said that the police would not establish additional controls during the Op Selamat campaign, which runs from today until January 1 of next year.
“There will be no additional barricades except for those in seven places on the border, namely in Lundu, Bau, Samarahan and Serian (which have been in place since the MCO),” he said. -Called
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