Saturday December 22, 2007
Car driver killed in crash with bus
BUTTERWORTH: The driver of a car was killed when an oncoming tourist bus crashed into it at the North-South Expressway here.
The car driver, identified as Khaironizan Halim, 22, died on the way to the Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital in Sungai Petani minutes after the 5.15pm incident yesterday.
Most of the forty foreign workers in the bus escaped unhurt when their vehicle went out of control and crashed into a road divider. The bus then collided with the car on the other side of the road before landing in a ditch.
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Curious and concerned: A crowd gathering to take a closer look at the crashed bus on the North-South Expressway in Butterworth Friday. |
Five men and a woman from the bus sustained minor injuries while the others, including the bus driver G. Raja, 30, from Kuala Ketil, Kedah, were uninjured.
Passers-by helped send the victims to the hospital.
North Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Wan Abdullah Tuanku Said said the bus driver lost control of his vehicle at the 117.4km point of the North-South Expressway after the front-right tyre of the vehicle got punctured.
ACP Wan Abdullah said an oil tanker had also rammed the car from behind.
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