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**leflyCode** · 10-12-2010, 11:04 AM

Tuesday October 12, 2010

Survivors and families recount horror

SEREMBAN: Dinner was getting cold when businessman Goo Chuan Aik received a call on Sunday evening. He had assumed the call was from his two siblings telling him they would soon be home in Batu Pahat from their daily trip to Kajang. Instead, he was told younger brother Chuan Heng would never come home for dinner again – he was dead. Chuan Heng died on the spot in the accident along the North-South Expressway involving an express bus and five other vehicles.

Painful sight: Negri Sembilan Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan (right) and hospital director Dr Jaafar Che Mat visiting an injured victim in the ICU at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital in Seremban yesterday.

Also in the Toyota Hiace van with him was elder sister Ai Hwa, 41, who escaped the brush with death. “It was just a regular trip. No one was supposed to die. “His wife is too distraught to speak and his two children are only three and six years old. “How can we tell them that their father is dead?” asked Chuan Aik.

There are ten siblings in the family. Another brother Chuan Seng had rushed to the scene of the accident but Chuan Heng was already dead by then. Chuan Seng, his T-shirt and shorts drenched in blood, was later seen at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital (TJH) desperately looking for his siblings and crying out that he could not find them.

Chuan Aik, who claimed his brother’s remains from the Malacca Hospital yesterday morning, said the family would be holding a wake for Chuan Heng in Batu Pahat. He added that his sister Ai Hwa, who had been discharged from the same hospital, was still recovering from shock. At the TJH here, 18-year-old Tew Chi Ling was thankful to be alive but upset that so many lives were lost.

Tew was on her way back to Kuala Lumpur after spending the weekend with her family in Malacca. One minute the college student was enjoying music on her MP4 player, the next her world turned upside down. “There were cries and screams everywhere. “My friend Tai Hui Tieng and I managed to crawl out of the bus through a window,” she said.

Another college student, 20-year-old Nursyafarin Razak from Shah Alam, was asleep but woke up when she felt the bus shaking violently – with many passengers shouting in fear and scrambling to get out. Another passenger, Tay, 27, claimed the bus was in the middle lane of the highway when the driver tried to move to the fast lane.

“The next thing I knew, we had hit the guardrail and crashed into traffic going in the opposite direction,” said the administration officer. Tay sustained a deep gash on her head which required 20 stitches. Of the 23 people injured in the accident admitted to TJH on Sunday, six had been discharged, and of the remaining, all but three were in stable condition.

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leflyCode Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 357 Senior Member	Tuesday October 12, 2010 Survivors and families recount horror SEREMBAN: Dinner was getting cold when businessman Goo Chuan Aik received a call on Sunday evening. He had assumed the call was from his two siblings telling him they would soon be home in Batu Pahat from their daily trip to Kajang. Instead, he was told younger brother Chuan Heng would never come home for dinner again – he was dead. Chuan Heng died on the spot in the accident along the North-South Expressway involving an express bus and five other vehicles. Painful sight: Negri Sembilan Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan (right) and hospital director Dr Jaafar Che Mat visiting an injured victim in the ICU at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital in Seremban yesterday. Also in the Toyota Hiace van with him was elder sister Ai Hwa, 41, who escaped the brush with death. “It was just a regular trip. No one was supposed to die. “His wife is too distraught to speak and his two children are only three and six years old. “How can we tell them that their father is dead?” asked Chuan Aik. There are ten siblings in the family. Another brother Chuan Seng had rushed to the scene of the accident but Chuan Heng was already dead by then. Chuan Seng, his T-shirt and shorts drenched in blood, was later seen at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital (TJH) desperately looking for his siblings and crying out that he could not find them. Chuan Aik, who claimed his brother’s remains from the Malacca Hospital yesterday morning, said the family would be holding a wake for Chuan Heng in Batu Pahat. He added that his sister Ai Hwa, who had been discharged from the same hospital, was still recovering from shock. At the TJH here, 18-year-old Tew Chi Ling was thankful to be alive but upset that so many lives were lost. Tew was on her way back to Kuala Lumpur after spending the weekend with her family in Malacca. One minute the college student was enjoying music on her MP4 player, the next her world turned upside down. “There were cries and screams everywhere. “My friend Tai Hui Tieng and I managed to crawl out of the bus through a window,” she said. Another college student, 20-year-old Nursyafarin Razak from Shah Alam, was asleep but woke up when she felt the bus shaking violently – with many passengers shouting in fear and scrambling to get out. Another passenger, Tay, 27, claimed the bus was in the middle lane of the highway when the driver tried to move to the fast lane. “The next thing I knew, we had hit the guardrail and crashed into traffic going in the opposite direction,” said the administration officer. Tay sustained a deep gash on her head which required 20 stitches. Of the 23 people injured in the accident admitted to TJH on Sunday, six had been discharged, and of the remaining, all but three were in stable condition.
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