Move to standardise traffic summon system by next week

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KUALA LUMPUR: The Road Transport Department (RTD) will discuss with the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) and the Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) on move to standardise the summon system by next Friday.

RTD director-general Datuk Nadzri Siron said the move to standardise the summon system among the three agencies would ensure a more effective action against errant motorists.

“Currently, RTD, SPAD and PDRM have separate system in carrying enforcement operations and they have no access to each other’s summon system and this pose a problem to act,” he told Bernama.

He said this when asked why no action was taken by RTD against the driver and express bus involved in an accident at KM265.8 of the North-South Expressway near the Menora Tunnel near Ipoh recently despite them having outstanding traffic summonses issued since 2011.

Nazri said the summonses that were issued to the driver and express bus were not by RTD, but the police.

“All drivers and express buses operating nationwide are free from the department’s blacklist,” he added.

He said the summonses issued by RTD to express buses currently were only for speeding and beating traffic lights under the Automatic Enforcement System (AES).

Even then, he said, there are constraints for RTD to take action against AES offenders because the system was still in the process of being merged with the Kejara demerit point system. — Bernama