Following the crash involving five superbikes on the Kuala Lumpur – Karak highway yesterday, police believe the incident happened when one of the motorcycles swerved to avoid a car changing lanes. According to Gombak Police District chief Assistant Commissioner Zainal Mohamed Mohamed, the incident occured at around 12.30 p.m. when the group of bikers riding large capacity motorcycles were travelling from Genting Highlands to Gombak.
“A rider is believed to have lost control of his motorcycle when an unidentified vehicle changed direction into the lane occupied by the rider,” said Zainal. “Four other riders in the group were also involved in the accident when they were unable to avoid the first motorcycle that fell,” he said in a statement reported in Berita Harian.
Zainal added the five riders were aged between 35 to 58 years old and suffered injuries to the head and body. “All victims were brought to Selayang Hospital and received treatment in the Red and Yellow Zones in the emergency department, Zainal said.
Police are investigating the incident under Section 43(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987 which concerns careless and inconsiderate driving. Zainal also asked for witnesses to the accident or those with information to assist investigations by contacting Traffic Investigation Officer Inspector Mohd Shaifuddin Mohd Nor at 0176645812 or 03-61262222.
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Bawa macam orang gila lepas tu salahkan kereta tukar lorong.
I wonder if these motorbikes dont have speed limits on the road?? I dont think they will be captured by the AES camera also right??
Ada duit beli kereta, takda duit beli lampu signal jah?
First rider took out his friends like bowling pins. Strike!!
Bloody cagers…
Saw the video of them treating the highway as racetrack, if they didnt ride liek that maybe they have more leeway to react to other vehicles on the road.
It is “Race at your own risk” when you are going 2x the road speed limit (180kph), what’s more while doing “lane splitting”…
Police should also look into whether these superbikers is riding dangerously fast.. To the extent that they can’t avoid each other…
Bawak laju lepastu nak salahkan kereta
Terlalu laju, so bike also not suitable to fix rider cam
Sorry to hear of the accident and injuries. Some effort need to go into educating the public on road safety. Simple things like traffic lights, turn signals, following distance , lane change, blind spot, speed. One thing that may have contributed to accidenta like this is the speed differential and bikes not keeping to lanes . Often cars are not able to switch lanes safely because motorbikes swerve in and out between slow traffic and blind spots, at vastly higher speed than surrounding traffic.
Funny how cars experience the same thing but don’t end up in a pile up of bikes going helter skelter. 2 things come to mind, what was the speed differential between the bikes versus the cars. Cars easily hit the speed limit and so it points to the speed of the bikes.
Curious if any of these biker want to send in their gopro footage as evidence.
Probably not when it’s too self incriminating.
Karak is well known for hig speed runs by bikers on high-powered machines. Somebody must tell them it’s not a race track for showing off ‘skills’. When one speeds on public road, the responsibility to stay safe shifts heavily onto the speeder. We all take risks but ideally one shouldn’t speed when the traffic is heavy, road is bad or the weather is bad. I’m sure the adults involved speed regularly there and knew fully of the risks of their folly. But did they think about their lòved ones? About endangering and inconveniencing other road users? Helmet and full leather outfit is good but without ‘otak’, ‘timbang rasa’ and ‘adab’ those personal safety equipment will be of little help.
Maybe a purpose-designed morality and civility component should be added to driving lessons.
Human manners at lost when they pressing out the throttle of ‘big bikes’?
Should enforce no youtubers allowed reckless speed at highway too.
Ada liscence special ke?
Want test should go sepang.
No matter what type of vehicle, the machine has the capability but it does not mean the headless user can push it to the limit, at least need to have the basic common sense of traffic situation and move on a manageable speed. Too many super bikes or super sports cars or even VVIP convoys just getting too fast on public road, they can not stay on the lane either.
Karak highway? Was the car changing lanes a Volkswagen kuning?
The car changing lane might just trying give way to those reckless lane splitting and speeding riders?
Let’s see
fully agree
Duit ada nak beli motor besar, tapi tak mampu nak bayar sewa ride dekat track. Bodo macam lembu…..
Simple analogy, if you go fast like crazy mcm rocket, you better be prepare to fall down like capsule during re-entry.
Racing incident
Make motor lane in Karak & make sure all bikes use it incl supervises….sure they feel malu….haha
wowowowow… xmati! what a miracle. lepas kuar hospital nak ride lagi?
ceh keter pulak die salahkan ko tu moto superbike fitrah moto laju fitrah die accident la
I can understand the thrill of riding a super bike cos I used to own one but the way these fellas were riding. There’s no way to stop in an emergency. The roads are meant to be shared, don’t use it like you’re the only one on the road. They’re lucky they didn’t die, kill anyone or end up half dead.
Going fast at karak is not only for superbikes……groups of high powered cars in groups like porches, skylines, bimmerz, Ferraris etc are also doing the same bloody thing on weekends. No different than auperbikerz… superbikes and supercarz driving like mad men are all nuisance on the roads regardless…
Hmmm, how can a car see a superbike coming when it’s doing 200 km/h on a bending road like that? Some of the rider publish it on YouTube… GWS to all those poor riders.
motorbikers dont have discipline or even respect other road users blame them, banyak ekk
It’s motorcyclist privilege rights to zigzag speedy overtakes your car, motorcars should always slow down prohibited to change lane once spotted motorcycle 2km behind your rearview mirror side mirrors ok LOL
PDRM should do a better job and be professional. Charge those superbike riders for endangering other lives. Stop kowtowing to VIPs.
the police should Use key word “karak” search in Youtube and see for themselves at what speed they are riding… more then 200km/h… then blame car drivers…
car drivers have the right to change lane… its the motorcyclist that need to be aware!!