When the rear seatbelt ruling was announced, it was a mixed bag of reaction from the public. It is surprising (and alarming!) that some feels this is a hassle. Since now is still the ‘introductory’ period (no enforcement yet), I conduct a quick survey by observing cars around me at USJ Summit-KESAS interchange traffic light. Almost all cars with rear passengers does not use seatbelt and of course there are “heroes” at the front not wearing seatbelts at all.

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Lets discuss some of the interesting seatbelts safety related ads from oversea. I’m wondering whether in your face/high morbidity factor ads like these would be more effective than those that are less morbid.

Heaven Can Wait

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Do you have an annecdote or story on how seatbelt saved your life? Or how it saved the life of your loved ones be it your spouse, children, relative or someone you know?

Leave your story on our comments section below. We are compiling these stories to be part of our road education programme. Your story may save someone’s life.

p/s - Read how rear seatbelt saved an ISA detainee’s wife and son here.

We just want to remind the public to submit to Private Eye (pictures of traffic offenders), you would need to send it to us via E-Suggestion first before we can publish it at the forum.

The “blurry” picture

The JKJR web team is wondering why the response for Private Eye is so … lukewarm to put it mildly. Since official launch last Thursday, 29th May 2008, we have have 4 submission related to private eye.

Unfortunately all 4 submission cant be used due to variety of reasons:

• The first, it was blurry and we cant see the number plate.
• The second, the zip file attachment is corrupted.
• The third, it was taken by a driver while driving which is a big NO NO!
• The fourth didn’t provide picture evidence only written complaint.

Please write to us or leave a comment here to let us know if you have problem submitting pictures to us. Please check the guidelines on submission as well.

The following article is in Bahasa Malaysia detailing some of the frequently asked question about the rear seatbelt ruling.

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