WITH road safety campaigns 2005-2010, covering the enforcement and legislation of regulation and law of education and engineering in place, road safety issues in Brunei can be focused and handled in an efficient and systematic way.
These could bring about positive affects in reducing the rate of road accidents in the country to 40 per cent by 2010, in line with the road safety council vision.
This was stated yesterday by the chairman of Road safety Council, Hj Alaihuddin Pehin Orang Kaya Digadong Seri Lela Dato Seri Utama Hj Md Taha, at a ceremony in connection with 'World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims' at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Berakas.
Her Royal Highness Princess Hajah Masna was present on the occasion in her capacity as the Royal Patron of the Brunei Darussalam Road Safety Council.
In his speech, Hj Alaihuddin said that one the objective of the event were to create awareness about the importance of road safety.
Hj Alaihuddin, who is also the permanent secretary of Ministry of Communications said that in addition to the council members' working visits to accident prone areas, the Road Safety Council had lined up several activities for the world road safety day, which included mass Maghrib and Isyak prayers, recital of surah Yassin and doa selamat at main mosques throughout the nation.
The event also saw the presentation of uniforms to representative of school crossing patrols from twelve schools in the country.
The ceremony featured a talk entitled " Remembering death and road traffic victims according to the perspective of Islam", delivered by Hj Mail Hj Besar, an officer from the Islamic Da'wah Centre.
Her Royal Highness then went on a tour of the exhibitions, which featured several government enforcement agencies related to road safety.
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