Proportion of road traffic accidents involving vulnerable road users attributed to speeding and traffic signal non-compliance in past five years

Question:

Ms Mariam Jaafar: To ask the Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs in the last five years, what proportion of road traffic accidents involving vulnerable road users, particularly motorcyclists and elderly pedestrians, involved speeding or a failure to comply with traffic signals, in view that vulnerable road users continue to account for a disproportionate number of road traffic accidents resulting in injuries or fatalities.

Answer:

Mr K Shanmugam, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs:

1. Between 2021 and 2025, motorcyclists were involved in approximately 64% of speeding-related accidents and 36% of red-light running accidents. In the same period, elderly pedestrians were involved in approximately 0.4% of speeding-related accidents and 2. 3% of red-light running accidents.