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Would the
consider improving
the Secretary consider
the situation
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that other motorists and pedestrians will be protected?
At the same time, we will also be able to reduce public
expenditure because every accident involves huge public
funds.
sir, the
SE CRE TARY FOR TRANSPORT (in Cantonese)
Transport Advisory Committee has, in fact looked into
this. There are about 80,000 light goods vehicles now,
and we cannot overnight treat the drivers as a separate
category or require them to undergo a separate test. But
I can assure you that we will definitely look into this
and if the skills for driving light goods vehicles are
different from those for driving private cars, we will
definitely consider separate tests.
MR. TAM (in Cantonese) : Sir, some of these light goods
vehicles have installed very powerful audio stereo systems
and loud music is played while vehicles are on the move.
Would that actually increase the probability of accidents,
and does the Government intend to do anything about the
situation?