Woman loses left leg after car skids off road

 The 57-year-old was among five people travelling in a Proton X70 from Kuala Terengganu to Kuantan.

The car, carrying a man and four women, is believed to have skidded while travelling from Kuala Terengganu to Kuantan on the East Coast Highway yesterday. (JBPM pic)

PETALING JAYA:

A woman lost her left leg after the car in which she was travelling skidded off the road near the Paka rest stop in Dungun, Terengganu, yesterday.

Nor Hazamullah Abdullah, of the Paka fire and rescue station, said a man and four women were travelling from Kuala Terengganu to Kuantan in a Proton X70 on the East Coast Highway.

The 57-year-old woman’s left leg was severed below the knee in the accident.

Firefighters extricated the woman and the severed limb and handed it over to the medical officer at the scene,” Bernama reported him as saying today. - FMT