Happenings 312: Bloody "White Cliff"

Date : 1st August 2008
Venue: Main road in front of Giant, Taman Connaught

It was 10++a.m. in the morning, I was doing my work at my desk while listening to the radio. There was a traffic report regarding that there was a severe traffic jam at the route from Taman Connaught Heading towards Kajang due to a severe accident. At first I thought it was just some small accident that caused the congestion, but later on my friend rang me up and telling me that the jam was very serious at both side starting from Taman Connaught till Taman Tayton and she told me not to used the route from MRR2 to college, and it was already 11.40am by the time she rang me up.

Thanks to her, I decided to used the other way that lead to my college, and fortunately there wasn't any traffic jam on the way. When I reached there, she was just arriving as well. She told me that there was a sever accident took place at the main road in front of Giant opposite our college. She even said that she can only see a lorry's "head" flatterned and bang into the concrete wall. Furthermore, the lorry itself was actually from the other side of the road, hit the divider, and slam unto the wall. My expression was like: OMG!! WTF!!

Later on in the evening, my dad came back with the night newspapers, and I read about the news. 7 vehicles was involved: 1 lorry, 5 cars , and a motorcycle; caused 2 death and other 5 injured. The motor cyclist and one of the chinese driver were found dead in the incident; another male casualty was one of my college student, who was on his way to college but unfortunately met with the accident and ended up in coma. One of the Kancil driver was lucky enough to avoid the crash while the other guy was almost the way to death as well. The pictures below reported the crash:

See the traffic jam...

Can you see how serious it was?

A closer look...

View from behind...

There were actually two cars here, flatterned, to the wall...

This Kancil was really lucky...

The divider was being knocked off by the lorry...

The only thing left was the motorbike...

It was to be believed that the first accident occured in the first day of the month seventh of Lunar, where the chinese is celebrating the hungry ghost festival. This is just the first day, and we have another 13 days left to the actual date of the festive. It is to be noted that everyone must drive safely during this season. As what the old people said, it is either you believe or you don't. Just remember to stay alert while driving, especially when there are motorists and big lorries around you.

God bless the victims.