Jefri Otoh’s body at the scene of the accident where his Honda Legend car crashed into a tree in Inanam.
Jefri
KOTA KINABALU: Four people were killed in three separate road accidents in Inanam on Thursday and in Tuaran and Keningau yesterday.
In the first incident, a factory worker, identified as Jefri Otoh, 32, from Pitas, was killed after the Honda Legend car he was driving crashed into a tree on a traffic island at Km 9.9, Tuaran Road, Inanam around 9pm on Thursday.
The victim, who was pinned in the driver’s seat, succumbed to serious chest injury.
It took a Fire and Rescue Department team about half an hour to remove his body from the car.
City police chief ACP Ahmad Sofi Zakaria said initial police investigation indicated the victim was on his way home to Kampung Inanam Laut when he lost control of his vehicle.
His body was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for a post-mortem, he said.
Ahmad Sofi urged eyewitnesses to come forward to assist police in their investigation under Section 41 of the Road Transport Act 1987.
In the second accident, two men were killed while two others suffered serious injuries after the Perodua Kancil car they were travelling in collided with a 10-tone lorry at Km 7, Jalan Sulaman, Tuaran yesterday.
Shalizan Azman, 33, the front passenger, and Khairul Atdeen Shah, 20, back passenger, died on the spot in the 7.30am incident.
The injured duo, identified as Kancil driver Abdul Jumat Abdul Hussin, 23, and Hairul Matiasin, 34, the second back passenger, are currently being treated at the Tuaran District Hospital.
Police urged eyewitnesses to come forward to assist in their investigation and the case would be investigated under Section 41 of the Road Transport Act 1987.
In KENINGAU, a local truck driver died at the scene when the vehicle crashed at Km 7, Keningau-Kimanis road around noon yesterday.
The victim, identified as Buni Tiansin, 52, was believed to have lost control of the truck when turning to ascend a hill, and was thrown out of the vehicle as it crashed, said District police chief DSP Zahari Mohamed yesterday.
Zahari said the truck was laden with stone and was travelling from Kimanis to Keningau when the accident occurred.
“The body of the victim was taken in a police vehicle to Keningau Hospital for an autopsy,” he said.
Meanwhile, it took eight personnel from the Fire and Rescue Department about 30 minutes to extricate the body of the victim from a ditch.