Deputy Speaker, when the Road Traffic Offences Amendment Bill was first introduced to Parliament; we did not object this Bill, but we had a number of issues and these issues have still not been properly addressed. The purpose of this Bill is to promote road traffic qualities by providing a scheme that discourage road traffic contravention and facilitate the efficient adjudication of road traffic infringements. But it fails to take into account reality and what has worked and what has not worked.
In the past 10 years, 134 000 people have been killed in our road through road accident. The majority of accidents are caused by drunk and driving. It is obvious that we cannot only impose stricter penalties and collection method as this is unlikely to affect the road user's behaviour and it is not working currently