The rear passenger of a Proton Waja died in an early morning accident near the Sunway Pyramid shopping mall, while the driver managed to walk away without a scratch on his body.
Four friends from TAR College, all from Kedah, had just left together after celebrating a friend’s birthday at a nightclub at the mall.
About 200m after Sunway Pyramid, witnesses said the car hit the central divider at KM1.7 of the New Pantai Expressway and was flung across — directly into the path of traffic flowing in the opposite direction.
The car then slammed into a Secure Express courier delivery truck and came to a rest on the emergency lane.
The courier truck driver, Wan Ismail, 40, said the car came flying sideways about one metre above the road — directly into his path.
“It happened so fast and there was nothing I could do to prevent my truck hitting it head-on,” he said, still in shock.
The truck had just come from the company’s headquarters in Section 33 in Shah Alam and was heading towards the highway on its way to make a shipment to Penang.
A nearby resident, Haslina Abdul Razak, 30, was at home and heard a “loud bang” at 3.25am. She came rushing out of her house and saw the driver getting out of the Waja, unsteady on his feet. She also noticed three passengers in the car, and they all looked very young, probably in their early 20s.
Police arrived a short while later and the rear passenger — Kang Ching Heang, 20 — was found to have died in the accident. The other two passengers were injured and were taken to the University Malaya Medical Centre for treatment.
One passenger suffered leg injuries while the other is in a critical condition, with severe head injuries.
A fire engine was also called in to help cut into the badly mangled Waja to extricate Kang’s body.
I feel so uneasy after reading this news. I’m not sure, maybe because I do go to club once in a while and after reading this, I feel scared. Or maybe because they are the same age with me and we have the same lifestyle. Or maybe because this remind me of friends who drive fast.
Right after I finish reading the news, I feel like calling my friends and ask them not to drive so fast. I’ve got friends who club till the dawn, drank so much till they are so blur and then drive back home. This is really disturbing.
To all my friends, please please please do not speed. Please do not drink so much if you know you are going to drive home after clubbing. I do not want to see anyone of my friends appear on the newspaper like the above.
May the rear passenger RIP.
P.S: Summer, Autumn hopes that you can drive safely. Autumn still care about Summer’s safety.
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