A fatal accident occurred at the unused Batu Tiga toll plaza this morning, resulting in the deaths of two road users. This is the second time such an incident was recorded at the location, with the first taking place on January 15.
In a report by Bernama, Shah Alam district police chief ACP Baharudin Mat Taib said initial investigations revealed the car was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Shah Alam. The vehicle was believed to have been speeding before the driver lost control of the vehicle and rammed into a pillar of the toll plaza.
Highway users have urged the authorities to accelerate the demolition of the Batu Tiga and Sungai Rasau toll plazas. Both toll plazas have ceased operations since the start of 2018, in line with Budget 2018 as announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Highway concessionaire PLUS has already announced it is in the final stage of awarding the tender to the contractors that will undertake the demolition works. The company noted the works will be completed by the end of March this year, and it would be carried out in stages.
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Plus is trying to hold gov for ransom by delaying the process so that they don’t have to spend on the demolition.
They were speeding…read the story properly
Get China to do it. They can do it in 2 days with sparkling clean up.
China can build north south highway in a month but only in china as the authorities there will steam roll anybody that is in the way.
They oso steam roll environ & animals
Steamrolling anyone who is in the way and they became super rich lately??!! I’d rather have a communist government like China and i wont stand in their way
All were informed.
https://paultan.org/2018/01/19/batu-tiga-toll-plaza-fully-demolished-by-end-march/
Why wait 3 whole months? This is vital. If there was a flood, will you say, wait 3 months then I come and save the rakyat?
3 whole months?
Why in the world are you comparing a flood to a road accident? Doesn’t make sense at all. The accident wouldn’t have happened if the driver was careful and SLOWED DOWN when approaching the toll plaza. Somehow, just because no need to pay toll some drivers treats the toll plazas as invisible.
Sure, they can do it within 1 month. But need to kolos whole width of the hiway. Mau?
Do it right the 1st time. Better to take it slow than sorry.
nothing to do with flood la brother. apa ko mengarut ni.
2.5 months to appoint a contractor and two weeks to complete the job.pur glc full of tender comittees and endless meetings.
Sorry for the losses. But please people..just treat it as normal toll booth even though it is free, at least until the demolition work done.
PLUS should be continue supplying the lights during the night before the actual demolish as it is super dangerous and they must act fast to remove all the toll pillars. Brainless PLUS
Completed by end of march you idiot…brainless KH
“The vehicle was believed to have been speeding before the driver lost control of the vehicle”
If the driver din ram the toll booths, they wud have rammed other road users or road barriers then bounce back to hit others. The toll booths there just happened stopped more serious eksidens from happening.
I think the speed limit is still set to 60 then to 15km/h at the toll booths You drive like maniac, then you die like a maniac. No one to blame but the driver. An impact at 60km/h would not kill, no matter what material you hit, be it a stone wall, booth or toll pillar. Buckle up your seat belts, drive safe and always remember if you have a passenger in the car, it is someones daughter/son/mother/father/brother/sister life in your hands.
How u know 60kmh wont kill ah??.show proof…
Not surprise what is happening. Look what happened yesterday traffic congestion at PLUS Highway!. After every year traffic congestion at PLUS Highway, what PLUS ONLY know to do is add more lanes! PLUS dont want to study why the Highway congested.
Ur statement has nothing to do with these incidents. Just wanna hentam much?
What kind of doofus goes thru a narrow Road at high speeds? Even if it’s free and without poles, there will also be PLUS staff that occasionally walk between booths.
Government is so slow to act. An inactive toll booth station, especially unlit, is a MAJOR road hazard. If a single basketball can be a hazard on the highway, what more several slabs of concrete with mere 7-ft openings? If have to wait for 3 months, at least have a flashing hazard light lit at all booths to warn cars further up to slow down.
This is bureaucratic issue – paperworks, tenders, etc. Would be better if it could be leaner, honestly.
Nothing to do with gov at all. Only driver stupidity.
They were speeding and both of them are from Shah Alam. How come they didn’t know that the toll booth is still there?
The abolishment of toll at these 2 toll plaza was announced during the 2018 budget in October 2017 and I am sure the decision must have been made a month earlier in September 2017…what had stop PLUS to start the tendering process for the removal if the tol plaza…why wait until january 2018 to start the tendering proses? Are they still hoping the the gomen will reverse their decision (or they are trying to renegotiate)…
More warning signs and light up the place properly please… Plus better do something to prevent further losses of lives while processing the demolition of the booths. And to the drivers… pls be extra careful la… Distressing to see unnecessary carnage due to stupidity.
you can drive at safe slow speed like 15km/h but the vehicles behind will still be driving at 60km/h.
when you slow down either they horn you or they couldn’t slow down in time because you decided to go 15km/h at the inactive booth.
Most lefllane got..
Left lane got lorries speeding how?
I am a daily user and I can say that most drivers slow down when approaching the toll booths even if there is no toll, it is the stupidity of these young drivers who try to speed through the toll booth.
Those toll booths are stationary objects. You hit it then you the one who wrong. If you died then you deserved it, end of story.
Best comment ever. But basher logic dictates that even if out of control speeding driver rams a lightpost in middle of nowhere & died, oso ini sarahan gov.
Blame the toll booth not the awful drivers. If you are such a bad driver that you can’t see a huge toll plaza, and avoid hitting it, you should not have a driver’s license.
toll booth do big also the driver cannot see and ram into it. driver problem, not toll booth problem.
Drivers so happy no more toll so they speed pass the booths.
This is a car forum right? Why put this up ans debate on how they died…its turning into a tabloid …make up yr minds…talk bout car and its engineering or this type of newsprint ..
PT oso layan Berita Harian, well known to be a tabloid, news. So…