horrific crash in cheras... death in Seremban...

for rain, yvonne n i, yesterday started off like any other day. we woke up and were preparing for Masterclass at 10. at around 9.30 i was in my room gettin ready, rain was in hers and yvonne was bathing. suddenly there was a commotion in rain's room. i rushed out to see what happened. she asked me to look out her room to the main road. there was an accident! she said she heard a loud bang!

cars started to pile up and there were lots of people standing at the sidewalk looking to see what happened. we knew that it was a really bad accident but couldn't really see much as Giant was blockin most of our view. abt 10 mins later the ambulance arrived. we cudn't see much after that as we had to go to school.

after masterclass at around 12.20pm, we caught a cab to go to the train station. traffic was still heavy. we could see a squashed lorry and car. but we didn't know what happened. today, since dad's in US, we don't have newspaper! hehe... so i decided to go to The Star Online. and it wasn't hard to find the article on this accident. it was right at the top of the main page. and this is what is says:

Two killed in highway horror

By STEVEN DANIEL

KUALA LUMPUR: Two people were killed after a 10-tonne lorry rammed into seven vehicles on the Cheras-Kajang Highway yesterday.

One of the victims of the horrific crash, Kpl Mohd Nuh Ali, 48, was a bomb squad specialist.

The lorry driver, who also died in the 9.30am crash near Taman Connaught, Cheras, here yesterday, was identified as Kang Ban Hin, 50.

Crash aftermath: Damaged vehicles and debris at the scene of a horrific accident on the Cheras-Kajang Highway Friday after a 10-tonne lorry rammed into seven vehicles, killing two people and injuring several others, five of them critically. The 9.30am accident caused a massive traffic jam. — ABDUL RAHMAN SENIN / The Star

Kuala Lumpur deputy traffic police chief DSP Ng Fook Long said six people were also injured in the crash.

“They have all been admitted to the Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Cheras and are in serious condition,” he added.

It is learnt that five of the injured were in critical condition.

Grim task: Firemen and passers-by helping a victim getting out of a vehicle during the crash in Kuala Lumpur Friday. — Picture courtesy of Murali Sundareson

DSP Ng said that the lorry, carrying boulders, was turning into the Kajang-Cheras Highway from the Middle Ring Road 2, when Kang was believed to have lost control of the vehicle before smashing into a motorcycle, three cars, a van and an MPV.

Mohd Nuh was riding his motorcycle to work with the General Operation Force unit in Cheras when the lorry hit him before jumping the divider and crashing into oncoming vehicles on the highway.

The father of three, who had spent many years in the force putting his life at risk defusing bombs mainly during training exercises, died on the spot.

Eyewitnesses described the scene of the accident as “horrific.”

“I saw the lorry coming down quite fast without the signal light on as I overtook it on my motorcycle. Seconds later, I heard a loud crash.

“To my horror, as I turned around to look, I saw the lorry smashing into several vehicles,” said Naresh Kumar, 28, an engineer.

He said he immediately called the police. Others at the scene claimed at least three other vehicles were damaged.

Kamarul Aizan, 33, whose Perodua Kancil was among the vehicles damaged in the accident, said he was just “seconds away from death”.

“I was heading towards Bandar Tasik Selatan when suddenly the lorry came out of nowhere in front of me and ploughed into a Kelisa. I might have been about three seconds behind the car.

“My car suffered some damage but thankfully I escaped unharmed,” he said.

The accident caused a massive traffic jam that lasted almost three hours as police and Fire Department officials cleared debris from the road and motorists slowed down to look at the accident.

The bodies of Mohd Nuh and Kang were taken to Hospital Kuala Lumpur for autopsy.

the massive jam caused by this accident:

today while i was with fiona n larrisa, they told me that they heard someone died in seremban town. they said it came out in the newspaper. and here it is....

Popular deejay’s son found drowned

SEREMBAN: The son of a popular NegeriFM deejay was found drowned at an abandoned project site next to Seremban Square near here on Thursday night.

Mohd Khalil Kamaruddin, 21, was believed to have fallen into a pool at the project site. His body was recovered by Fire and Rescue Department personnel at 10.45pm, about two hours after he had fallen in.

Mohd Khalil is the son of deejay Kamaruddin Kassim, better known as Papa Din.

District police chief Asst Comm Saiful Azly Kamaruddin said preliminary investigations showed there was no foul play.

Mohd Khalil’s friend Mohd Solihin Zakaria, 24, said he last saw the victim at about 8pm.

“He came to my cabin near the square at about 4pm and slept for more than two hours.

“A short while later, he told me that he felt like going to Port Dickson for a swim. I told him that I did not feel like going.

“He then left his wallet and mobile phone in the cabin and went away,” he said.

Mohd Solihin said that when he heard Mohd Khalil had jumped into the pool, he followed suit but could not find him.

“I came back up and asked several workers to help me but they too could not find him.”

if you read the 2nd paragraph, it says that he fell "into a pool at the project site." but in actual fact, it's not even a pool!!! it is an abandoned shopping mall project! they dug up the ground to build an underground parking area, and during the economy downturn, the project was abandoned. as years went by, this underground parking area began to "takung" water and now they officially call it a pool!!! what is this lar.... shudn't something be done about this?? how can they just leave it for years like that... i heard they're even rearing fish in there.... ??? and the new Dataran Seremban is next to that so-called-pool!

gosh, why is the government wasting money building a dataran seremban in the middle of nowhere??? cudn't they use the money to cover up that "pool"???

i'm lost for words.......