A van’s faulty engine and its driver losing control resulted in the vehicle veering off a narrow hill path into a gorge, said a man who survived the
He said he realised the driver had lost control of the vehicle when he shouted out loud. Mr Koh grabbed on to the back of a seat while warning the other passengers to “hold on” in Hokkien.
Fire department officials from Penang said they arrived at the scene at around 8.20pm and took around three hours to complete the rescue operation. The Malaysian driver, 61, was seriously injured. He was still in hospital as at Tuesday evening, along with two other Singaporean women in their late 50s, Penang tourism and creative economy chairman Wong Hon Wai told The Straits Times.
Malaysia’s south-west police chief superintendent Kamarul Rizal Jenal said the van’s fall was caused by the driver not being able to brake in time after restarting the stalled engine.
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