Following Transport Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai’s statement that punishment will be meted out to the company that owns the bus that rammed into 10 cars on the North South Expressway outside Ipoh, Qistna Express Sdn Bhd, which has 26 buses in its fleet, is facing suspension following the crash, according to a report by The Star.
“The suspension was carried out following the body’s audit of the company’s fleet, which found disobedience of mandatory safety requirements,” said SPAD chief executive officer Mohd Azharuddin Mat Sah in a statement yesterday. Investigation reports from the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS) are still pending, he said.
According to Ipoh OCPD assistant commissioner Sum Chang Keong in an earlier report, the bus’ brakes weren’t functioning properly, resulting in the bus coming down the slope at high speed before ramming into the cars. A 21-year-old girl, a passenger in one of the cars that were hit, suffered pain in the stomach area, but no one was seriously injured in the incident.
The bus was on its way from Penang to Kuala Lumpur, when the incident occurred on the southbound North-South Expressway at KM265.8 at 2:45pm.
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1 month ….aiyo…wayang kulit lah….should suspend @ least 1 year in order to enforce bus company “follow rules”
Mr. Liao say suspend the company only, operations, business and people still can continue drive and collect bus fare.
Or just register new company and continue with the same bus (with new body paint) and same boss and same driver.
Suspended only one month? You can rest assured, a big crony owns this company.
In this accident, the PDRM and JPJ are solely responsible. Do you know that this particular bus has got 60 summonses that are not settled?
How did they renew the road tax?
You got the answer. It is duit kopi. The lazy JPJ who are corrupted should have long gone and arrested the owner of the bus company many years ago. 60 saman over the past few years for one bas is shocking.
Our lazy PDRM officers also should have gone and sent a team to investigate how come just one bus can have 60 saman.
My advice to PDRM and JPJ, instead of eating nasi lemak, relaxing in the office, looking for aweks and having 8 tea breaks eating kuih lapis and kuih talam, please take the initiative to prevent accidents.
This accident could have been prevented. 60 samans for 1 bus is not normal
I already said, that transport minister just barking only.
Jail the boss and driver 1 month per accident. If they can suggest and named those supervisors or managers in between, then they can spread/share the jail term.
how did this bus get their 6 month Puspakom approval with so many samans?
You got the answer. DUIT KOPI!
This alone shows, Puspakom is so filthy and corrupted. Please clean up Puspakom as it is already causing so many deaths.
Hundreds of lorry hantu kill people in Malaysia. Whenever JPJ or Polis catch, the illegal Indon driver just give duit kopi to settle the saman.
Puspakom also tutup mata
Calling calling Matt Damon
Some clarification:
1. Due to brake failure, the driver had to make split-second emergency decisions. He performed exceptionally-well and should be given an award for limiting the damage to the cars and no significant injuries were suffered by anyone. Exceptionally well done.
2. Enough about the summons. Publish summons records for all, each and every one of the bus companies in Malaysia and lets compare.
3. Publish the specifications, age, maintenance records, and safety features of the bus fleets of all the bus companies in Malaysia and lets compare.
4. Install mechanical speed limiters at 100 km/h on all buses, make it mandatory. A cheap solution.
As usual, the common quick-fix is to pin all the blame on the bus company at hand. What about the responsibility of SPAD, JPJ, PDRM, and the entire inter-city bus industry? As usual, simple logic is lost to simple minds.
Complex logic is found by complex mind. Simple logic is found by simpleton.
Don’t shiok sendiri.
put all the directors in jail!
Datuk Ben, omg….how to jail a crony?
Mission Very very very Impossible.
With JOKERS in charge, the joke goes on.
But not funny due to safety issues.
Hopeless and inept ministry…clowns
Side track a bit. Hope the authorities will also look into KLIA taxis. Boarded a taxi recently upon arrival. The taxi was speeding between 120 to 140. Certain stretch was drizzling. Also was tailgating front car very near. It was a very unpleasant and dangerous ride. Pls do something before its too late.
At the end of the day, bus company will continue to operate and bus driver will get a slap at the back of his hand.
Both will probably get more money in their pockets at the expense of other human lives