COMMENT | A car crash, an innocent life lost - another day in a country where an average of 18 lives or more than 6,000 souls are erased on our roads every year.

But wait, in a country where a section of the population sees race and religion at every turn, legalities are blurred by the might of religious and racial voices.

In Malaysia, where race and religion lurk at every corner, legalities bend under the weight of loud voices.

The driver was first accused of being “mabuk” (drunk) = intoxicated by liquor. That was enough to...