Driving License

             Every year, the numbers of road fatalities are increasing steadily and this has caused a lot of concern to the government and the Malaysian people generally. In the light of the current situations, the government has been urged by the public to setup a permanent action oriented Road Traffic Council chaired by the Prime Minister himself to play a major role in reducing the fatal road accident. Therefore, on 23rd December 2003, a National Public Forum on Enhancing Road Safety and Preventing Road Accident had been held to find resolutions on ways to reduce the number of road fatalities. These resolutions are vital since it will be used by the Road Traffic Council later, to implement necessary steps to curb this problem overall. To show how serious the situations are, according to the Transport Ministry Dato' Seri Chan Kong Choy (2003), World Health Organizations (WHO) had stated that one million people were killed in road accidents globally every year and they even listed it as the top 10 life-threatening diseases ( p.2 ). On that day, a lot of ideas, recollections of experiences, and proposals had been voiced out. But what really caught the attention was from People's Progressive Party (PPP) Youth's proposal on raising the age limit to be able to own a driving license from 17 to 20 years old.
             Due to this proposal, some quarters of people especially those who are aiming to get their driving license when they reach 17 years old feel uneasy with it. I myself do not agree with this proposal since raising the age limit to be able to own a driving license is not a deterrent factor to curb these accidents on the whole. Age alone in this context is not the main cause why fatal accidents occur lately. What if this proposal becomes a law that everyone needs to abide it and we surely don't want the others to fall prey for our hasty conclusion on the first place.
             In order to understand my objection to the PPP youth's ...

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