Queue-jumping the primary offence recorded in JPJ multi-state site visitors operation – 252 out of 556 instances

Everybody desires to get to the place they’re going quick, certain, however that’s no purpose for potong Q, even when you subscribe to the “siapa cepat, dia dapat” line of thought. If you happen to assume that the motion is prime of the checklist of site visitors offences dedicated each day, you’re proper.

In a current cross-border site visitors operation involving Melaka, Johor and Negri Sembilan street transport division (JPJ) state workplaces, queue-cutting was the primary site visitors misdemeanour that errant motorists have been caught for, Bernama studies.

The operation noticed motion being taken towards 556 street customers for varied offences within the Southern Zone Op Rentas Sempadan, and of those, 252 street customers have been nabbed for trying to leap the queue. In accordance with Melaka JPJ director Muhammad Firdaus Shariff, many of the queue-cutting concerned use of the emergency lane and was largely detected in Cheng Peak, Bertam Malim and Padang Keladi.

“Emergency lanes can solely be utilized by automobiles authorised beneath the Highway Transport Act 1987 together with ambulances, police automobiles and JPJ automobiles in addition to these on responsibility,” he mentioned. He added that if convicted, offenders face a wonderful of no more than RM2,000 and/or a jail time period of as much as six months.

Within the three-day operation, a complete of 956 automobiles have been inspected and motion was taken towards 662 automobiles for varied offences together with modifications, tinted home windows and never complying with tyre specs. Moreover, 4 international nationals, aged between 30 and 40, have been arrested for not having a driver’s licence.