JOHOR BARU: A family outing ended in tragedy when a mother and daughter were killed on the spot following a collision between a trailer and the vehicle they were in.
Eleven-year-old Lian Poh Yi was flung out of the vehicle in the head-on collision while her mother, Chai Kin Lian, 31, was trapped in the wreckage.
Chai’s husband, Lian Leong Hoo, 41, was seriously injured in the 1.10pm incident at the 47th kilometre of Jalan Johor Baru-Air Itam near Sedenak here yesterday.
The trailer had dragged their MPV for some 35m before coming to a halt.
Lian has been warded at the Kulai Hospital’s intensive care unit.
The couple’s two other children Jian Seng, eight, and Poh Hai, six, suffered minor injuries.
Johor Baru (North) traffic chief Asst Supt Bakri Zainal Abidin said the 38-year-old trailer driver had been detained.
Meanwhile, a motorcyclist died after being hit by a bus near the Larkin bus station here.
Mohd Firdaus Hakim Mohd Farik, 18, was coming out of a junction at 9.30am yesterday when he collided with the bus.
He was rushed to the Sultanah Aminah Hospital but died shortly after.
Johor Baru (South) traffic chief Deputy Supt Ooi Kok Siong, who said the bus driver had been questioned, urged witnesses to the accident to contact the police at 07-2212999.
In Kahang, Kluang, two men died on the spot when their car hit a tree along the 84th kilometre of Jalan Batu Pahat-Mersing.
The victims, Er Kok Poh, 38, and his father Er Tian Hua, 63, were on their way home to Muar from Kahang when the accident occurred at about 5.45am yesterday.
Kluang OCPD Asst Comm Fauzi Arshad said the two died on the spot from head injuries.
