KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — Unsafe driving behaviours, particularly speeding and reckless driving can lead to accidents even to luxury and high-performance vehicles, said Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) director-general Prof Dr Wong Shaw Voon.

He said even though luxury and high-performance vehicles were equipped with state-of-the-art safety features, they were not immune to accidents, including fatal ones.

 “Although they can be driven at top speed of over 200km per hour, it does not mean that in the event of an accident, the vehicles and the drivers will be safe and sound.

 “These drivers claim that driving just slightly over the speed limit does not pose any problem to them. On the contrary, driving at speeds much too high increases the risk of accidents,” he said when contacted.

Wong said the roads were designed to be driven at certain speed limit and to stay safe, motorists should observe the speed limit and traffic rules such as wearing seat belts, including for rear passengers.

 “We are not 'Superman' or 'Ironman, we are human, let's prevent accidents by practicing safe driving rather than nursing injuries or losing lives,” he added.

Miros Behavioural and Evaluation Analysis Unit chief Noradrenalina Isah said according to a Miros study on road users in 2012, drivers aged 42 and below were more prone to break traffic rules, including driving above the speed limit.

 “Lack of bad experience of being issued traffic summonses made them bold in violating traffic rules,” she said, adding that men were two times more likely to break the highway code. — Bernama