Reckless
driving at pedestrian crossings endangering lives
It is disturbing that many cars sped past the pedestrians
crossings without even bothering to slow down when there are visible elderly person
and children crossing the roads.
Singapore
roads are getting crowded with more cars, commercial vehicles, bicycles and
more restrains and traffic users on the road.
However, there are many near fatal accidents and near misses which
continues to playback every day without cessation.
I
have personally witnessed twice, the same scenes being played repeatedly, along
the stretch of Jurong Town Hall Road and the Jurong East Street 13 where children
and elderly made pass the pedestrian crossing with cars speeding past without
slowing down.
Last
week I saw a young women with a pram crossing the zebra crossings and a blue
Honda sped past without stopping barely seconds after the woman had crossed. In
another instance an elderly man with a walking stick barely made it to the
other end of the restrain crossing when another Mazda car speed across,
sounding his horn incessantly.
I
feel the authorities should install intelligent cameras at all angles in
pedestrian crossings to monitor and eradicate such reckless driving behaviours
on our Singapore roads.
With
rapid advancements in modern surveillance technology, traffic cameras should be
strategically placed such that the vehicle plate numbers as well as the drivers
themselves are in full frontal view so that images can be captured and those incalcitrants
culpricities made indisputable.
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