A van driver has been jailed for a week and banned from driving for five years for causing the death of a pedestrian in Marsiling. Though he had right of way, Mohamed Saleh Ahmad, 57, failed to keep a proper lookout when turning left at a signalised T-junction from Marsiling Road into Marsiling Drive at about 7am on July 12 last year. He then hit Ms Melor Yusof, 60, who was using the pedestrian crossing. Saleh pleaded guilty on Tuesday to causing death by a negligent act. According to a medical report, Ms Melor was drowsy as she lay in the middle of the road before a passer-by later moved her to the side. She was taken to the hospital, where she was found to have no pulse. She died at about 8.10am. An autopsy found the cause of death was multiple injuries consistent with those sustained in a traffic accident. There was no report of traffic light malfunction and a mechanical inspection of the van found no abnormalities. There were no cameras or witnesses, but Deputy Public Prosecutor … [Read more...] about Driver jailed a week for causing woman’s death
Road traffic accident claims
Fiery Cairo car crash claims 19 lives
CAIRO: At least 19 people have been killed when a speeding car driving against traffic crashed into three others causing a huge explosion in Cairo, the Egyptian health ministry said Monday. The car crash happened just before midnight Sunday outside the National Cancer Institute in central Cairo and also wounded 30 people, the ministry added. Between “three and four (of the injured) are in critical condition in the intensive care unit,“ Khaled Megahed, a spokesman for the health ministry, told an early Monday news conference. He said they suffered from “several burns of varying degrees”. Body parts were also retrieved from the scene, he added. Social media users posted footage of cars ablaze at the scene and of patients being evacuated from the Cancer Institute. Egypt’s prosecutor general has ordered an investigation to determine the causes of the crash. Deadly road accidents owing to driver error and dilapidated infrastructure are common in Egypt with over … [Read more...] about Fiery Cairo car crash claims 19 lives
Chain reaction crash on Jagorawi claims boy’s life
A 6-year-old boy was killed during a chain reaction vehicle crash on the Jagorawi toll road near the Sentul toll gate in Bogor regency, West Java on Monday. Bogor Police traffic law enforcement chief Adj. Comr. Muhammad Fadli Amri said that the crash involved a bus and two cars. “The accident occurred when the bus switched lanes and hit one car and dragged it to hit another car,” said Fadli as reported by tempo.co on Monday. According to Fadli, at the time the accident took place, one of the cars was not moving on one of the lanes due to a flat tire. “Shortly after the accident, the bus driver ran away from the location and is currently being pursued.” A passenger of one of the cars, Rafa Azka Alfatih, 6, died on the way to Elang Medika Corpora (EMC) Hospital in Sentul. Meanwhile, two other passengers, Kusumawati, 42, and M. Nuh, 71, suffered multiple wounds. (bry) … [Read more...] about Chain reaction crash on Jagorawi claims boy’s life
Philippine fishing boat was rammed – Navy chief
‘No ordinary accident’ MANILA, Philippines — What made a Chinese vessel come into contact with a Filipino fishing boat and cause it to sink at midnight on Sunday in Recto Bank was no accident but a deliberate maneuver to ram the smaller craft, Philippine Navy chief Vice Admiral Robert Empedrad said yesterday. “The Filipino vessel was anchored. So when based on the International Rules of the Road, it had the privilege because it could not evade… The ship was rammed. This is not a normal incident. The boat was anchored,” Empedrad said in an interview during a Naval symposium at the Manila Hotel. Empedrad issued the statement in response to Beijing’s claim that what happened to F/B Gemvir 1 was just an ordinary maritime accident. Even some Philippine officials had maintained the sinking of the fishing boat in Philippine waters was not intentional, and may not have been necessarily caused by a Chinese vessel. Chinese foreign ministry … [Read more...] about Philippine fishing boat was rammed – Navy chief
No oil spill along Menora Tunnel: Authorities
IPOH: There is no oil spill along the Menora Tunnel as claimed in a viral message on social media yesterday. Head of Perak Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department Supt Zakaria Abd Rahman said checks done by the ‘Ops Selamat 15’ patrol team did not found any trace of an oil spill at the area. “I have also run a check and found that there was no accident in the area that involved the vehicles shown in the viral picture,” he told Bernama when contacted here today. Meanwhile, the Malaysian Highway Authority’s (LLM) spokesman also refuted the allegation of an oil spill incident along the Menora Tunnel, saying that they had not received any report of such incident, neither yesterday nor today. “Our inspection found that the road is still safe for traffic,” he said, adding that they believed the picture was an old picture of an oil spill incident occurred in 2017. Yesterday, a picture of several vehicles skidded off the road went viral … [Read more...] about No oil spill along Menora Tunnel: Authorities