BY SYED AZHAR

KOTA BARU:Two shoppers were killed after a driver lost control of her car on an upstairs open air parking of a mall, slamming the vehicle into a retaining wall before plunging down three stories.

Another shopper was seriously injured in the freak accident that occurred at 4.45pm when the mall in Jalan Hamzah was packed with weekend patrons.

Nurain Said, who was in the car when it plunged down, miraculously survived the 54-metre fall.

The dead have been identified as trainee nurses Siti Nuramira Shamsuddin, 19, and Siti Nurdiana Azman, 18, from a local college, both of whom died on the spot after being hit by falling debris.

Both Rashidah Ahmad Latif, 18, and Nurain have been admitted to the Raja Perempuan Zainab II Hospital with head injuries.

District OCPD ACP Zahruddin Abdullah said the original driver of the car – identified only as Sabri – had earlier gotten out of the car, which had stalled at the parking area.

He said Sabri then told his 17-year-old sister Nurain to get behind the wheel while he pushed the car in an attempt to jumpstart the engine.

ACP Zahruddin said while Sabri was pushing the car, the engine suddenly came to life, causing the car to lunge forward and smash into the retaining wall, which also served as the building’s ventilation airway.

He said Siti Nuramira, who was on the second floor of the building, and Siti Nurdiana, standing on the ground close to the escalator, could have died after being crushed by concrete debris.

“We are looking for Sabri and another woman identified as Nurul Atikah to assist police in their investigations for reckless driving,” he said.

A witness Hazura Ariffin, 25, said she heard a loud bang that shook the building.

“I thought it was an earthquake at first. I was shocked to see the wrecked car lying in the middle of the mall between the escalators,” she said.

Police had since cordoned off the building and advised all patrons to vacate the building to avoid further casualties.

Crowds waiting outside the mall attracted the curiousity of motorists, causing serious traffic jam along the road. Traffic only resumed to normal two hours later.

News source: The Star

Pictures credits to various sources.

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Ketika berada di lokasi kejadian, saya nampak 2 orang polis sedang mengawal lalu lintas..

Daripada penyiasatan saya, saya dapati kemalangan ini hanya melibatkan sebuah Perodua Kancil berwarna hijau itu sahaja.

Keadaan kerosakan dan keadaan Perodua Kancil itu semasa saya dilokasi kejadian, agak teruk.

Jadi, saya kelaskan kemalangan ini sebagai ‘Lost Control due to High Speed’.

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BINTULU- Kemalangan kecil berlaku kira-kira jam 6 petang, 2 Ogos 2009 melibatkan sebuah Pacuan 4×4 Toyota Commonrail dan sebuah kereta Perodua VIva. Kemalangan berlaku ketika jalan sesak berhadapan AMBank/RTM dimana perlanggaran terjadi apabila kenderaan dihadapan membrek dengan tiba-tiba mengakibatkan Perodua Viva memberhentikan kenderaan berkenaan secara melulu lalu dirempuh oleh Toyota Commonrail dari belakang. Tiada sebarang kemalangan jiwa dilaporkan dan hanya remuk kecil saja pada Perodua Viva berkenaan. Kereta Viva berkenaan dipercayai milik isteri kepada kawan pemandu kenderaan berkenaan.

Pemandu Toyota Commonrail berkenaan adalah warga asing yang bekerja di salah sebuah syarikat yang menguruskan projek DAM Murum, Bakun dan beliau pada ketika itu dalam perjalanan balik ke kem Murum selepas selesai membeli stok barang makanan. Empunya kereta Viva berkenaan datang ke tempat kejadian setelah dihubungi oleh rakannya yang memandu kenderaan beliau yang terlibat dalam kemalangan kecil itu. Pemilik Viva berkenaan berkeras agar warga asing berkenaan membayar ganti rugi sebanyak RM1000 untuk menukar pintu belakang dan juga bumper belakang baru bagi kereta beliau. Perbincangan mengambil masa lebih dari sejam tetapi tidak mencapai kata sepakat kerana warga asing berkenaan hanya mahu membayar kos baikpulih sahaja. Seorang daripada ahli PGX.com (Agent24) cuba meleraikan permasalahan berkenaan dan memberi cadangan dimana ianya menguntungkan kedua-dua pihak dan akhirnya mereka bersetuju dengan cadangan yang diberikan. Situasi dapat dikawal, yang pada mulanya disangkakan satu pergaduhan akhirnya bersurai dengan aman.

Jalan sekitar bandar Bintulu dijangka akan sibuk buat seketika kerana orang ramai akan berpusu-pusu hadir ke tapak Pesta Layang-Layang 2009 yang telah bermula sejak semalam dan akan berterusan sehingga 9 Ogos 2009 nanti. Kemunculan artis AF7, Hafiz, Claudia dan Aisyah akan menyerikan lagi program berkenaan pada 4 Ogos 2009 nanti. Semua pemandu dan penunggang motosikal disarankan agar lebih berhati-hati untuk mengelakkan kemalangan seperti ini belaku.

Berhati-hati di jalan raya. Ingatlah insan yang tersayang.

By Chris Power

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa will be brought out of a coma to have a brain scan in a Budapest hospital today after suffering head injuries in a horrifying 170mph crash during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Six days after Henry Surtees, the teenage son of legendary racer John, died as a result of being hit by the detached wheel of a rival car in a Formula Two race at Brands Hatch, Massa, 28, was also hit by stray debris, a rear suspension spring that had fallen off Rubens Barrichello’s Brawn car.

The spring – they can weigh as much as one kilo – struck the Brazilian on the front-left side of his helmet yesterday, causing him to career off the track, on to grass and then into a tyre wall at the Hungaroring.

A loose spring from Rubens Barrichello’s car is pictured here just moments before it struck Felipe Massa on the head

The car part hurtles towards Massa during a qualifying session for the Hungarian F1 Grand Prix

Massa would have been driving at about 170mph at the moment of impact

The car approaches the tyre barrier

Massa’s car becomes embedded in the quadruple layer of tyres

Massa hit his head on the steering wheel on impact with the wall and sat motionless in the cockpit as marshals called for medical assistance.

Two ambulances, then additional paramedic backup, arrived. The Ferrari star was carried off on a stretcher and driven to the track’s medical centre before being airlifted to the AEK Military Hospital in Budapest, where he had emergency surgery on a fractured skull and was put in intensive care.

Reports suggested he had bone removed from around his eye socket. He was then put in an induced coma. His brother, Eduardo, was by his bedside until the late evening, as Ferrari fans gathered outside the hospital. His parents, Ana Elena and Luiz Antonio, and pregnant wife, Raffella, are flying in from Brazil to be with him.

Last night the Hungarian Defence Ministry said that Massa, who is unlikely to drive again this season, was in a ‘satisfactory condition’. ‘At the time he was admitted to hospital his condition was stable and he was breathing and blood circulation was normal,’ said a spokesman.

Brazilian Formula One driver Massa is carried out of his car after the accident at the Hungaroring race track in Budapest

‘During the course of his examination they established that he suffered serious, life-threatening injuries including loss of consciousness and a fracture of the forehead on the left side and a fracture on the base of the skull.

‘He is being cared for in intensive care after surgery on a life-threatening injury and he is now in a stable, satisfactory condition.’

While one of the doctors who had seen Massa warned of possible damage to the driver’s brain, nothing can be certain until experts have examined today’s scan. Ferrari are considering withdrawing their other driver, Kimi Raikkonen, from today’s race. The final session of qualifying was delayed by 20 minutes as Massa’s car was hoisted off the track and taken back to the garage, where it was unloaded piece by piece.

As qualifying restarted, a medical helicopter moved the stricken racer to hospital, accompanied by his brother, Eduardo, and manager Nicolas Todt. Team principal Stefano Domenicali soon followed, and they were later joined by fellow Brazilian Barrichello.

It appeared from film and photographs of the incident that Massa’s visor came away from the screw on his helmet on impact with the debris, although it remains unclear how his eye and forehead came to be so severely injured. There did not appear to be a hole in the visor.

World champion Lewis Hamilton, who fought a titanic title battle with Massa last year, spoke for the entire paddock when he said: ‘I want to send my best wishes to Felipe. It looked quite a big crash, so I hope he’s OK.’

It is 15 years since a Formula One driver last died – Ayrton Senna at Imola in 1994, a loss which caused the then nine-year-old Hamilton to weep for his fallen hero.

Yesterday, Hamilton said: ‘I saw the [Massa] crash. It’s very scary. It has to be a big shock for any driver to have that happen, and very unfortunate because rarely do you see it.’

Referring to the Surtees tragedy, he added: ‘For two incidents to happen in such a short period of time . . . we can’t ignore it.’

Barrichello, who immediately went to see Massa before he was flown to hospital, said: ‘I wanted to be there in case there was nobody from his family there.

‘We are Brazilians and sometimes we have a family, sometimes we don’t, and when we wake up all we want to see is someone we know. Felipe had a cut on his head, which could have been from the part of my car that was on the track.

‘He was talking, he was moving, he was conscious, but they have to analyse the cut. He was moving his arms and legs.

Medical staff lift Massa into an ambulance

‘They had to make him sleep because he was very agitated. With that, they sedated him to calm him down before they moved him to hospital.’

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone arrived at the hospital at 10.30pm local time and spent 15 minutes with Massa and his doctors.

He looked stressed and insisted that there would be an immediate review of safety procedures. ‘This is not nice,’ he said. ‘I thought we had seen an end to all this sort of thing. It’s mad. This is just a few days after one death and it is very disturbing.

‘Professor Sid Watkins [F1 medical chief] deals with this and I have spoken to him this evening. He is going to get on to it straight away.’

The problem with Barrichello’s rear suspension caused his team-mate and championship leader Jenson Button to have the failed part replaced on his own car as a precaution. The work was not completed in time for the start of the final session, which meant Button completed only one run rather than two and, therefore, was heavier by about four laps’ worth of fuel because he had burned off less by the time he put in his final flying lap.

The injured driver is airlifted by helicopter to hospital

Qualifying ended in confusion with the time screens wiped out and no one knowing the order of the grid.

Button will start in eighth, his lowest position of the season, which makes it tough to withstand the advance of his nearest title rivals, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, who start second and third behind Renault’s Fernando Alonso on pole. He said: ‘We’re a little bit off the Red Bulls but I was happy with the car. We’re probably just a 10th [of a second per lap] off their pace.

‘I’m fuelled heavy for the race, which could be good, but we’re so far down I’m not sure it will make any difference.’

Between Button and the Red Bulls will be Hamilton, who will start from a season-best fourth on the grid. With the KERS booster fitted on his McLaren, the British driver could yet compete for a podium finish.

The destroyed car of Ferrari Formula One driver Felipe Massa after his accident

Sebuah perodua kancil telah gagal menekan brek lalu merempuh perodua My V dihadapan. Pada masa kejadian pemandu wanita kancil tersebut sakit di bahagian kaki dan hendak pergi ke hospital. Walaubagaimanapun ketika hendak keluar dari bulatan Abang Kipali beliau tidak sempat menekan brek lalu merempuh kereta My V dihadapannya yang di pandu oleh seorang pakcik. Keadaan kenderaan tidaklah begitu teruk dan tiada kecederaan berlaku.

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