Mr. Hj Joharry Hj Abd Karim Secretariat Brunei Road Safety Council Ministry of Communications

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1 Mr. Hj Joharry Hj Abd Karim Secretariat Brunei Road Safety Council Ministry of Communications 1

2 1. BACK GROUND 2. NATIONAL UPDATES ON ROAD SAFETY PROGRAMS 2

3 BACK GROUND FACTS RATIO FATALITY PER 100,000 POPULATION AND VEHICLES Brunei was ranked at 116 /192 in 2009, 54 died and index of and Singapore ranked 174, 214 died, 4.84,8 No of Population: 400,000 No of Motor Vehicle: 300,000

4 WORLD HEALTHRANKING ON ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT BRUNEI DARUSSALAM RANKED COUNTRIES TOTAL POPULATION: NO OF REG VEHICLES: FATAL EXPECTED REDUCTION BY 30% YEAR

5 ROAD SAFETY INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMMES Brunei is a highly motorised country where about 95% of its vehicle fleet comprised of privately-owned vehicles. As a small nation with rapid growth on infrastructure and economic development, the movement of people and goods on our road network is getting more rapid and we anticipate chaotic mobility in the very near future if we practice Business As Usual (BAU) in our road accident reduction efforts. Brunei aspire to the short, medium and long-term development on 5 Pillars that focused on actions-oriented TOWARDS SAFER MOBILITY AND SAFETY ON THE ROAD. 5

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7 NEW STRUCTURE OF BRUNEI ROAD SAFETY COUNCIL FOCUS GROUP ENGINEERIN G ENVIRONMEN T EDUCATION ENFORCEMEN T EMERGENC Y PWD CRoSS, ITB RSU, MOC Police M.O.H Members : CRoSS, ITB RSU Police LTD Members : RSU Ad-Hoc 4 Focus Group Members : M.O.E RTB BSP Ad-Hoc 4 Focus Group Members : LTD Legal DTO s RSU Members : Polis FB RSU

8 Journey: Towards Safer Mobility and Safety on the Road To Stabilise and then reduce the number of lives lost GLOBAL GOAL GOAL To reduce and minimize deaths and injuries due to Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) in Brunei. APPROACH Psychological-Technological (Psycho-Techno) & Integrated approach towards Road Traffic Injury (RTI) accident reduction on Brunei Roads 5 E THRUSTS ENGINEERING EDUCATION ENFORCEMENT ENVIRONMENT EMERGENCY 8

9 Vehicle Modification Guidelines ROAD SAFETY INITIATIVES & PROGRAMMES: MULTI-SECTORAL APPROACH Vehicle Safety Standard VEHICLES (Engineering) Demerit Defensive Driving DRIVERS (Edu.) + Safeguard Vulnerable Road Users New Driving Curriculum Video Road Safety Tips Safer Mobility zone MAIN FOCUS SUPPORTED BY School Vicinity Road Safety Programme ROAD (Engineering) ENFORCEMENT (Enforcement) EDUCATION (Education) RESEARCH (Environment) EMERGENCY RESPONSE (Emergency) NGOs/ PRIVATE SECTORS/ COMMUNITIES/ OTHER AGENCIES 9

10 ROAD SAFETY INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMMES To ensure that we meet our goal TO REDUCE AND MINIMISE DEATHS AND INJURIES RELATED TO ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS (RTA) ON BRUNEI ROAD, these initiatives and programmes are planned based on 5Es and under the Five (5) Principles: 1. Enhancing Road Safety Management and formulate evidencebased strategies and action plans. 2. Reducing the drivers degree of severity of road crash event by enhancing the level of safety of our road network. 3. Addressing the most emergence major cause of road accident in the country by clamping down the speeding behaviour. 4. Introduction of and imposing the vehicle safety standards and modifications guidelines. 5. Addressing the driver impairment through Assertive Education and public awareness campaigns and safeguarding the vulnerable road users. 10

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12 Road Name (Speed Limit) Speed Limit (km/h) Average Speed (KM/h) Highest Speed (KM/h) Peak Off-peak Peak Off-peak Peak Percentage of vehicles over speed limit (%) Offpeak Muara-Tutong Highway Tutong-Seria Highway Jln Kebangsaan (Towards BSB) Jln Kebangsaan (Towards Muara) Tungku Link Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Highway Mentiri-Sg Akar Highway Sg Akar Highway

13 Road Name Usage of Phone No Safety Belt Other Behaviors Muara-Tutong Highway 4% % 15% - 17% 5% - 13%. Tungku Link Highway 2% - 7% 15% - 25% 3.5% - 7.5% Jalan Kebangsaan 3.5% - 5.5% 19% % 11.5% % Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Highway 2.5% - 3% 15.5% % 1.5% - 4.5% Back

14 1. EXCESSIVE SPEEDING. 2. TAILGATING AT HIGH SPEED (At a distance of 1 single vehicle at 80 Km/h or above). 3. MOBILE PHONE USAGE WITHOUT HEADSET WHILE DRIVING. 4. TEXTING WHILE DRIVING. 5. NOT WEARING SAFETY BELT. 6. NO CHILD CAR RESTRAINT. 7. NOT WEARING SAFETY HELMET WHILE RIDING BICYCLE. 8. NOT ATTENTIVE WITHIN SCHOOL ZONE AND PUBLIC PLACE. 9. NO SENSE OF ORDERLINESS.

15 Note: These are pre-identified only based on CRoSS s referencing on the 24 hour police report available for 2003, 2005 and 2008 data from BSB and BKS police stations. Work still in progress with the Royal Brunei Police to verify these. However, 1,4,6,7 and 8 are very much related to the major causes. 1) Driving at extreme speed. 2) Distracted while driving (Mobile phone usage, texting, eating etc) 3) Tailgating (follow too close) at high speed. 4) Careless and Reckless driving (Eg: Reckless: Cilok while driving at high speed and Careless: coming out of junction abruptly) 5) Abrupt change of lane without respect of other road users. 6) Failing to stop in time due to distractions or less skill in driving. 7) Skidding due to high speed during rain or wet road surface. 8) Disobeying traffic light signals and roundabout systems. 9) Driving in a rush with no sense of orderliness.

16 out of 19 accidents = out of 32 fatal accidents = (up to April only) - 8 out of 8 fatal accidents = 100 Average up to April 2012 = 83 of fatal accidents involving vehicles were head body parts injuries

17 SPEED WARNING DEVICE Around 100 CCTVs which belongs to Public Works Department where it functions to monitor traffic flow. Speed warning devices helps to enforce speed limits to commercial vehicles 17

18 AWARENESS AND EDUCATIONAL APPROACHES 18

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25 THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE MINISTER

26 ROAD SAFETY VISIT, INSPECTION AND AAWARENESS PROGRAM ON THE USAGE OF HELMETS

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28 Brunei Road Traffic Laws Road Traffic Act, [ RTA ] Section 68 Road Traffic Regulations [ RTR ] Road Traffic (Demerit Points) Regulations 2013 Other Related Regulations 28

29 . THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATENTION continue to PART 2