In the latest effort to improve road safety in Cambodia, the Minister of Transport has announced that motorbike sellers will test buyers on a 10 question quiz on road safety before they are allowed to purchase their motorbike. This sounds like a brilliant scheme suggested by a very expensive advertising company.

Motorbike Buyers Need to Pass Road Safety Quiz, Minister Says

by Buth Kimsay | December 14, 2016

Motorbike shoppers will have to watch 10 driver safety videos and pass a quiz about them before they can walk away with their purchases beginning early next year, Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol said on Tuesday.

Speaking at the announcement of a $120,000 driver safety campaign, Mr. Chanthol chuckled as he described the new scheme.

“The customer must watch the spots and sign the agreement—‘I watched the spots’—before taking the motorbike out of the shop,” he said on Tuesday in Phnom Penh.

Though he said the details of the plan have yet to be finalized, Mr. Chanthol said shop owners would show the clips to customers and ask them to take a 10-question quiz before signing the agreement.

Three of the ads will cover drunk driving while the other seven focus on speeding, helmets and other safety concerns, and will also run on TV5, PNN, and MyTV throughout next year, the minister said.

Through television and tuk-tuk ads as well as high school theater performances, the ministry hopes to bring about a drop from the 13,669 road fatalities recorded last year. The campaign is spurred by an agreement signed by Mr. Chanthol with the Asia Pacific International Wine and Spirits Alliance...
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Great idea if it goes ahead


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Great idea if it goes ahead


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beaker wrote:I can't imagine a dealer not taking someone's money because they didn't pass the test.
They should have them pass the test or they don't get plates for their newly purchased moto.

Exactly, the same way you pass the vehicle safety test. Here's a dollar, please stamp this.

Be good to see the questions in the safety quiz, but they will be in Khmer of course. Will foreigners have to pass it ?

(Cue to the start of an unfounded online rumour that all foreigners now have to pass a test in Khmer to buy a motorbike. Lol.)

good idea
but in practice
will never work
maybe the bigger dealers sure
but the lower end ones
no chance

and for used bikes from private person to private person?

how would/could that be done?

still the same safety issues.

just sayin'


Bertros

Anything road safety awareness here is good and positive!

I bet one of the questions would be; Can you find your own arse with both hands and a map?