SEREMBAN: After their motorcycle crashed at Km269.9 of the North-South Expressway on Monday night, pillion rider Anismalina Jamaludin phoned the father of the rider, Mohammad Idham Baharudin.
That was the last call that Anismalina made.
Minutes later, she and Idham, and another man who had stopped to help them were killed when a cement lorry crashed into them at about 9.30pm.
Baharudin Mohd Isa, 59, said Anismalina, 20, had told him that his son, also 20, had lost control of his motorcycle and crashed.
The hotel security guard said she also told him that Idham had several injuries.
Baharudin said he had advised Anismalina to call for an ambulance.
“I then asked for permission from my employer to leave so I could rush to the crash site... that was about 10pm.
“As I was nearing the area, I got stuck in a traffic jam, so I called my son’s handphone, but an unfamiliar voice informed me that my son had died.
“When I got to the scene, I found the bodies of my son and Anismalina had been covered with a plastic sheet.
“Their bodies were then sent to Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital,” he told reporters at the hospital mortuary.
Baharudin said Idham and Anismalina were on their way from Senawang to Banting at the time of the incident.
State Traffic Enforcement and Investigation Department chief Superintendent Ibrahim Mohd Abdul Kadir said initial investigations revealed that Idham had lost control of his motorcycle and crashed in the emergency lane of the NSE, near the Seremban rest area.
He said another motorcyclist and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) lorry driver V. Ravendran, 26, had stopped to help Idham and Anismalina.
Ibrahim said a cement lorry had then crashed into the LPG lorry which was parked in the emergency lane.
He said the impact of the crash caused the LPG lorry to ram into Idham, Anismalina, Ravendran and the other motorcyclist.
Idham, Anismalina and Ravendran were killed.
The other motorcyclist and the cement lorry driver were injured.