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Saturday December 18, 2010

Thorough inspection of bus wreckage

By RUBEN SARIO
sario@thestar.com.my

KOTA KINABALU: A detailed technical inspection will be carried out on the wreckage of a Prisons Department bus that plunged into a ravine, killing four officers. National vehicle inspection company Puspakom Sdn Bhd will carry out the inspection on the 40-seater bus that went down a steep slope and overturned several times near Kampung Moyog, about 45km from here on Thursday.

“Among the things we are looking at is the condition of the brakes,” said Sabah police commissioner Datuk Hamza Taib. The bus, travelling along the hilly and winding Tambunan-Kota Kina_balu trunk road, was carrying 25 people, including the four officers who died in the 10.15am tragedy.

Hamza said that of the 19 other passengers, seven who were earlier listed critical were now in a stable condition at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital here.
One is still being treated while the eleven others have been discharged.

The bus was one of three carrying home Prisons officers and their family members after a three-day inter-state football tournament. The driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle, causing it to go off the road and plummeting down the slope.