Four friends escape with minor injuries as car turns turtle

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The car that landed by the roadside along Jalan Lopeng on Friday afternoon.

MIRI: A nurse from Miri Hospital and her three male friends have a lucky escape yesterday afternoon when a car that they were travelling in skidded off the road and turned turtle by the roadside at Jalan Lopeng here.

All passengers and the driver escaped with minor injuries.

According to sources, the four friends were heading towards the airport area for lunch when the car suddenly went out of control and turned turtle.

In the 1pm incident all the victims managed to crawl out of the car but were visibly traumatised.

Meanwhile, in a separate incident, a trailer truck carrying block-boards ran out of control and rammed into a road divider and a tree while travelling along Jalan Cahaya here Thursday night.

It was heading towards Bintulu about 12am.

The truck driver escaped unhurt. Several units of mobile police vehicles (MPV) dashed to the scene to control the traffic flows.

A heavy downpour hours before the incident and the slippery road conditions might have contributed to the mishap.