ALOR GAJAH: An express bus driver was killed after the vehicle he was driving crashed into the rear of a lorry at KM220.7 of the North-South Expressway (NSE) northbound, near here, early this morning (October 25).
Alor Gajah district police chief, Superintendent, Arshad Abu, said that, in the 1.30am incident, the victim, Zainuddin Jaidun, 49, suffered injuries to his body, and was pronounced dead at the scene. Three of the bus passengers sustained injuries to the leg; one was injured in the head, while two others sustained minor injuries, as one escaped unhurt.
"At the time of the incident, the victim was ferrying seven passengers travelling from Singapore to the Seremban Bus Terminal, while the lorry, laden with steel coils, was from Melaka heading to Rawang.
"Preliminary investigations found that the victim's bus crashed into the rear of a moving lorry driven by a 52-year-old man," he said in a statement here today (October 25).
Arshad said that the victim was trapped due to the impact of the collision, but was successfully removed by firefighters; as his body was taken to the Forensics Unit of the Alor Gajah Hospital for a post-mortem.
He added that the lorry driver was unhurt, and had been asked to come to the Alor Gajah traffic police station to help facilitate further investigation.
"All the passengers on the bus, including a Singaporean and a Myanmar national, were taken to Rembau Hospital and Seremban Hospital to receive treatment.
"The vehicles were taken to the Alor Gajah traffic police station, and then on to Puspakom for inspection, and the case is being investigated under Section 41 (1) Road Transport Act (APJ) 1987," he said. --BERNAMA