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I read with great distress the news of a policeman who died while chasing a drug addict on a motorcycle in Penang recently.
Have we become immune to the news of road traffic deaths (though eminently preventable) in this country?
Motorcycle deaths continue to account for about 60% of the 7,000 or so (pre-Covid) total road deaths a year. Malaysia has one of the highest road deaths per 100,000 population in the Western Pacific Region, according to the WHO Global Status Reports on Road Safety.
The author had the opportunity to work for WHO in collecting data for these reports.
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