Ride a double decker bus if you have a death wish

Another double-decker express bus was involved in an accident in Temerloh in the wee hours of 26th December 2010.

The bus skidded and hit a hillside at Km363 of Jalan Raub-Bentong at dawn today.

The accident which happened at 5.30 am, were ferrying 39 passengers was from Kota Bharu to Kuala Lumpur.

It is so sad to hear about bus passengers involving in horrifying accidents especially when another bus accident recently occured at Cameron Highlands-Simpang Pulai road in Perak on Monday morning.

"In its application, the company had specified 19 seats, but after the accident, we found the seating capacity was more than doubled to 43 seats," a source from the Transport Ministry told The Malay Mail yesterday.

"The upper deck had been modified to accommodate 30 seats, while the lower deck, which was supposed to be a lounge, had several more seats."

The problem that seems to be repeating over and over again is that the company operating the busses are not in accordance with the rules and regulations.

This is because they are greedy and willing to make more money at the expense of the safety of the bus passengers.

The Transport Ministry, Road Transport Department (RTD), Puspakom Sdn Bhd, Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros), Public Works Department and the police should be working more seriously and nab the perpetrators that does not follow regulations set by the Government.

This is because if bus accidents keep occuring every week, then maybe the people should just boycott it and uses either AirAsia or Firefly instead because we never heard of any cheap flights being involved in accidents until now.

Travelling by air seems to be safer than travelling in busses nowadays. What do you guys think?

I think consumers should BOYCOTT bus services until they improve their safety features because we know sometimes bus drivers or lorry drivers drove like they are the F1 driver.

If you have a death wish or want to die young and early, then welcome on board a double-decker bus.