A customer drinks beer at the St. George brewery‘s public pub March 28, 2015. Miros recommends that designated driver facilities or programmes be made a requirement as part of the business licence for premises selling alcohol. — Reuters pic
In a statement today, Miros director-general Dr Khairil Anwar Abu Kassim said such methods have already proved to be effective in reducing road accidents in other countries such as Australia and Japan. “This practice is not new, as some developing countries too have adopted this method, which Australia and Japan have shown decreases the rate in road accidents involving drivers under the influence of alcohol,” he said in a statement today.
On May 3, a policeman was killed after he was hit by a four-wheel drive vehicle driven by a suspected drunk driver while he was manning a roadblock at the Kajang South Toll Plaza at the Kajang-Seremban Expressway .