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Former Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan is urging motorists to exercise caution while using the nation's roads this Independence long weekend.
He notes the deadly mix of speeding, alcohol, and reckless driving stressing, that one fatal crash can shatter an entire community.

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00:00Former Minister of Transport Rohan Sinanon says road users need to practice vigilance.
00:07Over the weekend, several road traffic accidents were recorded.
00:11Reports indicate that among them, two people were killed and two others injured in a crash along the Uriah-Butler Highway early Saturday morning.
00:20There was also an incident on Sunday involving a police vehicle conveying a prisoner and a Toyota Yaris on the priority bus route.
00:30No one was fatally injured, but the occupants were taken to hospital, treated and discharged.
00:36Speaking with TV6 via phone, Sinanon called for more attention to be paid to road safety.
00:42Once you're behind the wheel, once you're the designated driver, you should not be indulgent in any sort of drugs or alcohol.
00:52Speeding is a major cause of fatal accidents and in most cases you find that alcohol forms a part of that influence of speeding.
01:06Either trying to get to somewhere, not being in full control of yourself, not even understanding the speed that you're driving at.
01:13And, you know, one road fatality disrupts an entire community.
01:19He reminded that this was the reason his government introduced the demerit point system.
01:25But with a new administration now in office, he says, it is for them to decide the next steps in tackling road safety.
01:32I try, you know, avoid them to comment on, you know, the current happens of the government.
01:41My philosophy is that there's a new government in place.
01:44They will have new policies and programs.
01:47And you must give them a chance to rule it out.
01:51The future will tell us whether those policies and programs were of any benefit, was it better, or, you know, what really was the results of it.
02:06The former minister says he hopes road safety remains a priority of the new government,
02:12adding that the previous administration implemented a system that once cut accidents by over 50 percent.
02:19We place a lot of emphasis on road safety.
02:25That is why we came up with the whole demerit point system, the U-turn system,
02:31and the records will show that we were the only country in the Western Hemisphere
02:37to achieve that global record of having a more than 50 percent reduction in fatal road accidents.
02:51We have seen some deviation from the previous policy,
02:55but I'm just hoping that the focus remains on road safety,
02:59and whatever is implemented, you know, has that in mind.
03:03The idea is to go to zero road fatality.
03:07Efforts to reach the police road safety officer for comment were unsuccessful.
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