Singapore continues to pursue its Vision Zero target aimed at eliminating road fatalities, supported by strict traffic enforcement, advanced monitoring technology, and targeted urban planning initiatives. Despite maintaining relatively low traffic fatality rates globally, recent increases in fatal accidents have renewed public focus on road safety. Transport experts highlight that achieving zero road deaths requires combining continuous infrastructure improvements, stricter penalties for traffic violations, and sustained behavioral shifts among all road users.
- Singapore maintains a low traffic fatality rate compared to international standards, though recent spikes in severe accidents have drawn official concern.
- Traffic police are expanding technological enforcement, including enabling speed-tracking features on red-light cameras across major intersections.
- Infrastructure enhancements include specialized Silver Zones with lower speed limits for elderly pedestrians and traffic-calming measures near school zones.
- Stricter legal penalties and enforcement measures target high-risk behaviors, such as speeding, reckless driving, and driving under the influence.
- Experts emphasize that engineering and legal measures alone cannot prevent all accidents, making road safety culture and personal responsibility essential to reaching zero fatalities.
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3rd world pretending to be 1st world
No. Cannot be achieve.
Punishment is just too lax. How many times have we seen/heard of the same serious accidents happening again and again… 😢
What intervention? With the rising cases of unlicenced drivers driving deregistered vehicles, this move is totally pointless, useless and irrelevant.
With such light penalties to such reckless driving, the numbers are just going to increase, not decrease because recalcitrants will continue to offend due to such light penalties.
You can improve road safety a lot by making all foreign nationality to take SG local driving test… but why this is not done??? YOu allowed easy conversion and so, these bad eggs brought in their own culture and influences the local drivers and many picked up bad driver habits!!!!
Change the definition of road fatalities.
So many Foreigners. Not even close to Swiss wanna compare to them with blank cheques and empty promises.
Road works lane blocking contribute to driving frustrations. Jay walkers and speeding motorcyclists poses alot of dangers. Gahment simply cannot handle the truth.
Can, use the new erp system to catch road offences. Many are speeding and driving recklessly on public roads that has no cameras.
Can start by imposing higher fines first.
Zero fatalities in Singapore? On this tiny, overcrowded island, with aging uncles and aunties, plus angry teenagers with attitude? That’s not a target and that’s a fantasy with excellent PR!” 😂
Not with illegal PMDs around lol
even only reducing it is a dream far fetched, ZERO …nah no way! prob. only JS-joker will adamantly believe it can be achieved..!!
Absolutely not
Absolutely no, we will never achieve zero road fatalities because we can never eliminate stupidity. It is always a matter of time before someone, somewhere makes a decision that will end up killing someone or themselves on the road.
Never! as long as lane splitting is allowed. even a 3 yo knows this relationship. A lot of people in charge are aware of this but they are in denial.
Ummm, who came up with this goal? Have you noticed lousy entitled singaporean drivers yourself? People here drive offensively, not defensively. So that's wishful thinking. Tackle the basics first then you can dream of "collective change". Eg. Get these stupid drivers to stop for pedestrians at the zebra crossing
Impossible. Thanks LTA for reducing the demerit points to 18.
Why don't use non-newtonian speed bumps rather than painting the roads with so many colours and so many signs. A waste of money!
Too much driver who don’t remember roads. without GPS. They can’t drive. We always see drivers change lane suddenly after they fail to plan ahead. Driver who look at their GPS and drive off lane. Fail to move their vehicle when traffic turn green. Drivers who stop 1 car length or more from the front vehicle on Red light. Stop at the lane waiting to change lane. Too many slow driver driving 60/70 km/h on 90km/h limit when the road are clear. Driving slow don’t not mean safe. Drive focus is the thing, know your road without the GPS. know how to anticipate with other road user. Drive with the flow. Singapore should allow self-driving like USA and China are doing. Maybe accident rate will drop since human can’t drive well. GOV keep wanting us to adopt AI, why not self-driving?
Hang drivers that commit offences, problem solved
No way. I see reckless driving always. And hardly any TP present. Speeding, tailgating at high speed, last min signal or no signal, and abruptly lane change. Can't bother to check blindspots. Just before the text, already saw a van Speeding on lane 1 after tailgating me along PIE before eunos exit. Bet no TP along the way😂
Singapore is well known for being a Chinese police states. Singaporeans are monitored like prisoners. Media is controlled by the PAP. It's time for the United States to review our relationship with Singapore over the suppression of Bloomberg. In a free and democratic society. You don't need the governments permission to express your opinion in public. You don't need a license or permit to hold a gathering of professionals . Can you explain why Singapore doesn't allow citizens to own land after paying thousands of dollars for it? Waiting for your comments trolls. Truth hurts doesn't it. President Trump needs to be educated about Singapore.