{"id":28245,"date":"2017-02-03T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T07:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=28245"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T07:18:03","slug":"malaysia-spent-billions-road-accidents-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/malaysia-spent-billions-road-accidents-2016","title":{"rendered":"Transport Ministry: RM9.21 Billion Spent On Road Accidents In 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About RM9.21 billion was spent due to road accidents last year, revealed Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the latest report from the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros), Liow said this was an increase of RM581.3 million compared with 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of medical costs, productivity loss and other payouts, Miros estimates the country pays an average of RM1.2 million for a death; RM120,000 for severe injuries; and RM12,000 for light injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Liow added that 7,152 people were killed in 521,466 road accidents last year.<\/p>\n<p>The death rate due to road accidents rose slightly to 2.59 people for every 10,000 registered vehicles last year compared with 2.55 in 2015, he told a press conference after a radio interview with 988 and Suria FM on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia has always been in the top tier when it comes to deaths caused by road accidents.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Ranking 2011 placed Malaysia at number 20 in its list of countries with the most deaths caused by road accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) studied road safety levels in Malaysia and found that the country had a relatively high traffic crash rate per owned vehicle. The top reason: The high number of motorcycles on the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2017\/02\/02\/road-accidents-cost-malaysia-rm9dot2bil-in-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>[Source]<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A costly affair. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autos","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Malaysia Spent RM9.21 billion On Road Accidents Last Year<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The country is notorious for deaths by road accidents and is expected to fork out more cash on dealing with the problem.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/malaysia-spent-billions-road-accidents-2016\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transport Ministry: RM9.21 Billion Spent On Road Accidents In 2016\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A costly affair.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/malaysia-spent-billions-road-accidents-2016\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"iMoney Malaysia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-02-03T07:18:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Emmanuel Surendra\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Emmanuel Surendra\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/malaysia-spent-billions-road-accidents-2016\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/malaysia-spent-billions-road-accidents-2016\",\"name\":\"Malaysia Spent RM9.21 billion On Road Accidents Last Year\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-02-03T07:18:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-02-03T07:18:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/a7c6c5ecf3ba99234373c75acdff7fa4\"},\"description\":\"The country is notorious for deaths by road accidents and is expected to fork out more cash on dealing with the problem.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/malaysia-spent-billions-road-accidents-2016#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/malaysia-spent-billions-road-accidents-2016\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/malaysia-spent-billions-road-accidents-2016#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Autos\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/category\/autos\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Transport Ministry: RM9.21 Billion Spent On Road Accidents In 2016\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/\",\"name\":\"iMoney Malaysia\",\"description\":\"Everything you need to know about improving your personal finances.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/a7c6c5ecf3ba99234373c75acdff7fa4\",\"name\":\"Emmanuel Surendra\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e6d0ef9a974611998508639c5dedc59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e6d0ef9a974611998508639c5dedc59?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Emmanuel Surendra\"},\"description\":\"Emmanuel writes to live. 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