Five members of the family including baby burnt to death in road crash near Menora Tunnel
Muhammad Apendy Issahak
New Straits Times6 October 2018
KUALA KANGSAR: Five members of the family including a baby were killed in an accident at KM255.6 of North-South Expressway northbound near Menora Tunnel. Perak Traffic Enforcement and Investigation Department (TEID) chief Superintendent Ahmad Adnan Basri confirmed the incident.
Muhammad Apendy Issahak
New Straits Times6 October 2018
KUALA KANGSAR: Five members of the family including a baby were killed in an accident at KM255.6 of North-South Expressway northbound near Menora Tunnel. Perak Traffic Enforcement and Investigation Department (TEID) chief Superintendent Ahmad Adnan Basri confirmed the incident.
“However, the identities of the victims have yet to be known and they were taken to the Kuala Kangsar Hospital,” he said.
Meanwhile, Kuala Kangsar Fire and Rescue Department chief Mohd Taufiq Abd Sattar said five bodies were found including the baby, who whose remains were found underneath the others.
It was earlier reported a trailer and a car collided, causing both vehicles to go up in flames, blocking traffic in the 11.30am incident. The trailer, transporting iron ore, was headed for Penang from Johor Baru.
A truck and a car accident at Kilometer 255.6 North North Expressway north of the Menora tunnel. (Pic courtesy of reader)
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Trailer driver detained for investigation into five deaths on highway
Sylvia Looi
Malay Mail7 October 2018
At least five people were fatally burned following a multi-vehicle accident at Km255.3 northbound of the North South Expressway near Kuala Kangsar October 6, 2018. — Picture courtesy of the Fire and Rescue DepartmentMore
IPOH, Oct 7 — Police have detained a 41-year-old trailer driver for investigations into a fatal accident at KM255.3 northbound of the North-South Expressway after the Menora Tunnel yesterday.
Perak Traffic Investigation and Enforcement chief Superintendent Ahmad Adnan Basri confirmed five people died in the crash.
“The dead were four adults and one baby. All the victims are Chinese,” he said in a WhatsApp statement today.
Efforts to locate the victims’ next of kin are still ongoing, added Ahmad Adnan.
“Post-mortem examinations will be conducted today by pathologists from Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun Ipoh,” he added.
Police were reported as saying yesterday that the driver of the trailer carrying iron ore lost control of his vehicle, which resulted in it swerving to the right of the two-lane expressway in the 11.47am incident.
The car carrying all the victims was dragged by the trailer and smashed into the expressway divider before erupting in flames.
A truck and a car accident at Kilometer 255.6 North North Expressway north of the Menora tunnel. (Pic courtesy of reader)
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Trailer driver detained for investigation into five deaths on highway
Sylvia Looi
Malay Mail7 October 2018
At least five people were fatally burned following a multi-vehicle accident at Km255.3 northbound of the North South Expressway near Kuala Kangsar October 6, 2018. — Picture courtesy of the Fire and Rescue DepartmentMore
IPOH, Oct 7 — Police have detained a 41-year-old trailer driver for investigations into a fatal accident at KM255.3 northbound of the North-South Expressway after the Menora Tunnel yesterday.
Perak Traffic Investigation and Enforcement chief Superintendent Ahmad Adnan Basri confirmed five people died in the crash.
“The dead were four adults and one baby. All the victims are Chinese,” he said in a WhatsApp statement today.
Efforts to locate the victims’ next of kin are still ongoing, added Ahmad Adnan.
“Post-mortem examinations will be conducted today by pathologists from Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun Ipoh,” he added.
Police were reported as saying yesterday that the driver of the trailer carrying iron ore lost control of his vehicle, which resulted in it swerving to the right of the two-lane expressway in the 11.47am incident.
The car carrying all the victims was dragged by the trailer and smashed into the expressway divider before erupting in flames.
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