Driver Of Car That Body Landed On Still Traumatized

Trapped driver vows not to return to his flat after the horrific incident

BY ROYCE TAN

Shattered: Symsul looking at the condition of the company car he was driving when the incident occurred.

GEORGE TOWN: Symsul Shahadan, who was trapped after a man plunged to his death atop the car he was in from a high-rise block of flats on Wednesday, will not be returning to his home there after the incident.

He said he was on his way back to the Sri Sujana flats in Macallum Street Ghaut after work and had pulled over near a staircase to call his wife to confirm the time to pick her up at her office.

“I started the engine after the conversation and then the body came crashing down,” he told The Star after lodging a police report at the Patani Road police station here yesterday.

It was a traumatic 30 minutes for the father of six when the body of the man, identified as Liew Kam Ming, 49, landed on the company car he was driving, shattering the windows and windscreen and trapping Symsul in the 6.30pm drama at the Sri Saujana flats.

“I suffered a minor concussion and my chest hit the steering wheel,” he said, vowing not to go back to the place.

“I am looking for a new place to stay and will rent this unit out. I’ll be staying at my relative’s house in Jalan P. Ramlee for the time being,” said Symsul, who works as a supervisor with a car rental operator here.

Liew, said to be from Kuala Lumpur, is believed to have fallen from the 24th level as some residents at Sri Saujana saw a man lingering around that floor some 40 minutes before the incident.

At press time, Liew’s next of kin had yet to claim his body.