SWEPT BY STRONG CURRENTS: A Brunei-registered four-wheel vehicle being towed out after it got swept by strong currents at a flooded section of the Pan Borneo Road in Batu Danau, Limbang, yesterday.
MIRI: A Brunei-registered four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle was nearly swept away by strong currents when the driver risked crossing a flooded stretch of Pan Borneo Road at Batu Danau in Limbang yesterday.
The over-eager driver and passengers managed to escape from the grave situation, and a lorry trailer and a shovel tractor had to be roped in to tow the vehicle out of the raging waters yesterday morning.
The vehicle was border-bound when the incident unfolded as the driver misjudged the road alignment and drove into the deeper roadside, smack into the danger of being swept away in the 9am incident. The vehicle was following the one sending Second Resource Planning and Environment Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan, Bukit Kota assemblyman Dr Abdul Rahman Ismail and Limbang Resident Maria Hasman to a flood relief centre at Kampung Bidang.
The stretch, a short distance from the Batu Danau bridge, was still flooded in shallow but fast-flowing water, which is still dangerous to small saloon cars.