Time to Ban These Altogether?

You see these vehicles at construction sites. Badly kept and without proper safety fittings like bumpers and wheels exposed.

These are the “lorry hantu” that have no road tax and not subject to vehicle inspection. The tyres could be bald, steering faulty and brakes non-existent.

Sometimes they even use public roads when the police “close one eye.”

When this type of vehicle is allowed to operate on an elevated construction site we should be prepared for this kind of incident to occur.

The rules should be changed so that “lorry hantu” can only operate with special permits for specified sites only such as:

 On ground level

 Where mishaps will not endanger others.

We should be thankful that commuters were only inconvenienced. But we should not tempt fate by ignoring all the ample warnings.

photo: The Star