Pre-Hospital Care & Ambulance Service: 10-vehicle pile-up as bus crashes into ambulance

Saturday, 3 November 2012

10-vehicle pile-up as bus crashes into ambulance

THE STAR ONLINE
Friday December 16, 2011

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/12/16/nation/10108560&sec=nation

KUALA LUMPUR: A driver was seriously injured when his school bus collided with an ambulance and the car he was trying to overtake crashed into seven other vehicles in Dutamas Raya, Segambut, here.

In the 7.30am incident yesterday, the driver, with no passengers in the bus, was heading towards the city when he tried to overtake a car and crashed into an ambulance coming from the opposite direction, said Kuala Lumpur Investigation and Traffic Regulations staff officer DSP Abdullah Roning.

Total wreck: A car was pinned under the school bus which collided with an ambulance near Dutamas Raya Thursday. The bus driver is in critical condition.

“The impact sent the car skidding and crashing into seven other vehicles that were mostly parked along the road shoulder,” he said. “Two were taxis.”

The bus driver, in his 30s, was seriously injured and sent to Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

The ambulance driver escaped unhurt. Bernama

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