SEMPORNA: Three members of a family, including a baby girl, were killed when the car they were travelling in was involved in an accident with two other vehicles at Km12 of Jalan Tagasan near here yesterday.
Semporna district police chief Farhan Lee Abdullah said the vehicles involved in the 4.30pm incident were a car, 4-wheel-drive vehicle and a 20-tonne lorry.
He said the accident occurred when the car, which was heading to Kampung Salimbangun from Kampung Lihak, was hit in the rear by the 4WD vehicle.
As a result of the collision, the car, driven by a 30-year-old man, veered into the opposite lane and crashed into the oncoming lorry, he said in a statement here today.
Farhan said the crash killed three passengers in the car, namely the driver’s wife, 30, their 10-month-old baby girl and his nephew, 13.
“The driver’s wife and their baby died on the spot while his nephew was pronounced dead while receiving treatment at the Semporna Hospital,” he said.
The 27-year-old 4WD driver and the lorry driver, 32, escaped unhurt, Farhan said, adding that the case was being investigated under Section 41(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987. - FMT
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