Penang Bridge crash: SUV retrieved from waters, body found
Tuesday, 22 Jan 20196:09 PM MYT
GEORGE TOWN: The sports utility vehicle that fell off the Penang Bridge has been retrieved.
Rescue personnel started the actual operation to hoist the 1.5-tonne car from the sea at around 5.45pm on Tuesday (Jan 22), and took about 20 minutes to bring it up onto the bridge.
The car, which is in a badly-mangled state, was hoisted using four cables attached to a crane.
The recovery team grew solemn upon seeing a lifeless body, believed to be that of Moey Yun Peng, inside the mangled car.
Initially, the first harness that divers strapped around the car underwater snapped before the wreckage could even surface.
The divers then went down a second time with a larger harness, and were successful this time.
“We had to wait until the tide was at the lowest and the current slowed down, before we could safely dive in and strap the car,” said one of the recovery personnel on the bridge, who declined to be named.
The wreckage was submerged at a depth of 15m, about 15m away from where it went over the barrier.
The SUV plunged into the sea after a collision with a black car at 2.54am on Sunday (Jan 20).
The driver of the vehicle has been identified as college student Moey, 20
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BODY STILL INTACT
GEORGE TOWN (Bernama): The body of the victim trapped in the sports utility vehicle (SUV) which plunged into the sea last Sunday (Jan 20) was still intact, eventhough the vehicle was retrieved three days later.
Penang police chief Datuk T. Narenasagaran said the victim, identified as private college student, Moey YunPeng, 20, was found strapped to the driver's seat after the vehicle was retrieved from the sea at about 6.00pm at KM 4 of the Penang Bridge here.
“The car was badly wrecked due to the crash, but the physical condition of the victim was still perfect and his seatbelt was still fastened," he said when met by reporters at the scene.
According to him, the victim's remains were sent to the Seberang Jaya Hospital for post-mortem before being handed over to the family for burial.
He said the operation to retrieve the vehicle took three days, as the search was hampered by bad weather and strong currents. - Bernama
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