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The traffic scenario in Malaysia becomes extremely congested during festive seasons, namely Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Chinese New Year (CNY), Christmas and Deepavali. Normally, city dwellers take advantage of the long holidays to visit their hometowns, a tradition fondly referred to as “balik kampung”. As a consequence, the “balik kampung” tradition generates an inevitably high volume of traffic on all highways and major roads nationwide. Usually, the number of deaths per day exceeds the annual daily average during these festive seasons. In 1996, when no integrated intervention strategies were instituted, a total of 321 deaths was recorded during the fifteen days of the festive season which brought about twenty-one deaths a day (Radin, 1998). This alarming casualty rate prompted the Government to initiate an integrated road safety program that included exposure control, crash prevention, injury control and post injury control interventions.
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