He said it was an exaggeration to claim there were 33 million vehicles compared to the current population as the figures took into account old British colonial era vehicles.
“I am sure the number of vehicles on the road is not more than the population as it included the registered vehicles from the British colonial days. Liow was commenting on the report which quoted a road safety expert saying that the number of vehicles in the country has overtaken the human population, with an increase of at least a million vehicles annually since 2019.
The news portal also quoted Road Transport Department director-general Datuk Zailani Hashim as saying that the department had handled 33.05 million vehicles in the past 75 years since it was incorporated as Registrar and Inspector of Motor Vehicles.