KUCHING: A former state football player died in a road accident early yesterday when the car he was driving slammed head-on into a large tree.
TRAGIC: Firefighters and Civil Defence Department personnel extricating Azwa’s body from the wreckage.
The deceased was identified as Mohd Azwa Mahsin, 24, of Kampung Demak here.
He was a member of the President’s Cup team in 2005 and was also in the squad for the Super League the following year.
Mohd Azwa, who worked as a security guard at Unimas in Kota Samarahan, was driving a Perodua Viva belonging to a friend when the fatal incident occurred around 2.30am at Mile 9 Jalan Penrissen.
A 16-year-old girl travelling in the same vehicle with him broke her legs and sustained multiple cuts in the accident, and was admitted to Sarawak General Hospital.
It is learned that the teen, who is a student, was a few months’ pregnant and had run away from her house in Kampung Tupong at the start of the current school holidays.
Her parents, who were present at the hospital later in the morning, had no idea of her whereabouts until hospital staff contacted them regarding their daughter’s accident.
It is also learned that Azwa, who had only just gotten married in January, was working the night before and had called his wife earlier around midnight.
He spoke to her for several minutes before telling her that he had to conduct his routine patrol of the university grounds.
Meanwhile, a police patrol team was the first to come across the wrecked Viva and they immediately stopped to provide assistance.
Seeing that the victims were pinned inside the wreckage and badly injured, police officers contacted the Fire Department, as well as the Civil Defence Department and Sarawak General Hospital for an ambulance.
Firemen spent about 10 minutes to extricate Azwa’s body and also to free the trapped teen from the front passenger seat.
Traffic police personnel were at the scene to investigate the crash and later sent the body to the mortuary for a post mortem.
Azwa’s wife and family members arrived at the hospital later in the morning to claim his body.