KUALA LUMPUR: The Road Transport Department (JPJ) is determined to half the number of traffic-related deaths by 2020 and will continue strict enforcement of traffic laws to ensure road safety, even if it incurs the public's wrath in doing so.
"If we don't take stern action now, the annual rate of road deaths may increase to 10,716 by 2020. JPJ aims to minimise that projection by about 50% to 5,358 road deaths per year," said JPJ director-general Datuk Seri Ismail Ahmad, adding that it was his duty and he would do so even if it made him unpopular.
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