A lorry has crashed into six cars at a traffic light intersection in Tasek Gelugor, Penang, which resulted in one driver sustaining injury, reported The Star citing Bernama.
The lorry was on its way from Tasek Gelugor to Lunas in Kedah when it suffered brake failure in the 11:15am incident on Sunday, according to Seberang Perai acting police chief superintendent Siti Nor Salawati. “Six vehicle were damaged but there were no casualties. Only one car driver was injured,” the acting police chief said.
The lorry driver had tried to slow the lorry down as it approached the traffic lights, swerving left and right before crashing into the vehicles which were stopped at the intersection. The lorry that experienced brake failure had not been carrying any payload at the time of the incident, Astro Awani reported the acting police chief as saying.
According to the Astro Awani report, the lorry had collided into a Perodua Viva and a Proton Waja, which had then been pushed forward by the impact and then collided with other vehicles in front of them. The incident is being investigated under Rule 10 of the Road Traffic Rules 1959, the Seberang Perai acting police chief said.
This incident involving a lorry has not been the first high-profile one. Given the reported cause that was brake failure, as with many other incidents in the past, it appears much more thorough inspection and stricter enforcement are required, especially for very large ones such as these. Read our in-depth look into the roadworthiness of commercial vehicles, here.
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Why choosing to hit all the cars instead of hitting trees or even straigth to the drain. In that case only your truck is the casualty not risiking others life.
Hitting the tree
Truck driver die
Tengok ada lorry treler, tengok ada keta.
Langgar lorry, stop immediately dan hanya lorry saja yang rosak. Kerosakan minima.
Langgar keta, berderet keta rosak tapi driver lorry selamat. Kerosakan maksima.
Decision driver: langgar keta jela
And yet the authorities are sleeping on the job, who is accountable for the roadworthiness of such vehicles on the road? Or another excuse from the driver that the brake fails?
Once again what is Puspakom doing? How many times does this need to be happen until Puspakom steps up?
The power of monopoly and the power of untouchables but most importantly the power of under table kau-tim.
Still no JakeBrake in Malaysia?
if the cause of the crash was infact break failure, then the next question is when was the last time the lorry went for puspakom inspection. If it was very recent, then the next question is whether puspakom inspection is still needed (since is not very effective).
Why are we keep seeing non road worthy lorries on the road?
Yet I see enforcement patrol vehicles everywhere.. weird.
Thanks to the norm practice of rent a vehicle parts especially just for passing puspakom inspection. Articles example from windshield windows, brake system, exhausts system, etc. LOL
We bet the crooks will give you many thumb down for disrupting their lucrative illegit business
We put the crooked PH in Govt so what to expect?
Fully agreed. They are cronies not crooks, earning big monies more than two decades already
Malingsian? Following feeble poor-minded indonesian much?
7 cars? How fast was he driving?
Have u ever heard the word ‘momentum’?
2 words.
Enforcement, Corruption
1 has to be eliminated, another taken to further action.
Too many tip offs to lorry drivers/transportation companies to avoid JPJ roadblocks which looks like they will obviously fail. Overloading, bold tires & the list goes on.
People are renting good parts for the periodic inspections, changing them back to their “good enough” parts after it. It is an easy blame on certain part failure. But why did it fail is the next question.
And it is not like punctured lorry tires on the highway have not caused accidents. Even if not directly, the indirect cause the leftover tires pieces are still very risky. Main reasons are: re-threaded tires, bold tires.
Over-speeding heavy duty vehicles, which are supposed to be 70/80kmH or 80/90kmH are everywhere on the highway too. With failing parts, how high are the chances of them stopping safely.
Back to those 2 words.
Enforcement! Corruption!
It is public knowledge that a lot of these lorries are only roadworthy when going through PUSPAKOM inspection.
After passing it, the roadworthy parts are then installed on the next lorry which needs to go through PUSPAKOM inspection.
So authorities does not know about this?
Or just pretend don’t know and ignore cause this does not affect them… yet…
Not surprised this happened… I drove on this stretch 2 weeks ago… saw these lorries driven aggressively at high speeds and one even overtook me at a curve