The Land Public Transport Commission (Spad) has fulfilled its obligations outlined in the independent investigation report on the 2013 Genting Highlands bus crash.

Spad chairperson Syed Hamid Albar said the report had 51 recommendations, of which only eight were under his commission's purview.

"As far as we are concerned, all the recommendations made in the report, we have done it," he told reporters today.

He said the other recommendations were under the purview of other government agencies and declined to comment if those matters have been resolved.

Syed Hamid was responding to Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (Miros) chief Lee Lam Thye's criticisms against Putrajaya for failing to implement 51 recommendations in the report.

The Genting Highlands bus crash resulted in 37 deaths. Lee argued that failure to implement the 51 recommendations had resulted in a similar bus crash last Saturday in Pagoh, where were 14 fatalities.

Meanwhile, Syed Hamid said the most common causes of bus and lorry accidents between 2007 and 2014 were due to human factors, according to Miros study.

No to segregation

The study claimed that human factors cause 66 percent such accidents. Most cases involved dangerous driving (26 percent), followed by speeding (20 percent), fatigue (15 percent) and alcohol intoxication (5 percent).

Road and environmental factirs form 20 percent of accident causes while the vehicle factor was 10 percent.

As such, Syed Hamid urged all to improve driving behaviour in order to reduce accidents.

On long haul bus operator TransMalaya Ekspres' plan to segregate male and female passengers, Syed Hamid said he disagreed with it.

“I don't think you should make life difficult. Let people to choose,” he said.

According to Malay Mail Online, male and female passengers who board TransMalaya Ekspres will be expected to sit separately if they are not family or married, even if they were non-Muslims.

The company said this was to prevent harassment of female travelers.