THE Transport Ministry has proposed setting a committee to monitor the implementation and follow-up of the recommendations contained in the assessment report on the Genting Highlands bus crash in August 2013, in a bid to address issues of accidents involving express buses.

Its minister, Anthony Loke, said the proposal to set up the committee would be tabled to the cabinet during its weekly meeting on Wednesday.

Loke said 51 recommendations were given in the report as a result of the study on the bus accident that claimed 37 lives five years ago, with each aimed at improving the nation’s express bus system.

“I have asked the ministry’s secretary-general to revisit the report. We want to monitor how far the recommendations have been implemented over the years.

“We do not need to carry out a new study. Now is the time to follow up on the previous one,” he said in Putrajaya today.

The assessment of the bus crash at Jalan Genting Highlands-Kuala Lumpur on August 21, 2013, which was deemed the worst bus tragedy in the country, was carried out by the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research. – Bernama, June 4, 2018.