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Malaysian Road Safety Institute Pushes For Better Training Of Food Delivery
Riders

Dave Grunebaum

   KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Almost every day26-year-oldAmirul Rashid is on
   his motorbike delivering food. Hemustdeal with traffic, changing
   weather conditions and sometimes impatient customers who keep sending
   messages asking when their food will arrive. Rashid says it's the same
   situation for most food delivery riders and unfortunately that prompts
   some of them to disobey traffic rules,whether it's the speed limit or a
   stop light.

   "Pressure usually comes from the customers because usually the
   customers want their orders fast," Rashid says. But he also blames the
   riders themselves for rushing on the roads so they can make more money.
   "We often hear about delivery riders getting in accidents," Amirul
   added.

   Although there is not a specific breakdown for delivery riders, 66% of
   the people killed in road accidents in Malaysia are motorcyclists
   according to the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research and there
   are often headlines in the news about accidents involving food delivery
   riders.

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