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KUALA LUMPUR: An eight-year-old girl was thrown from a vehicle along the Duta-Ulu Klang (DUKE) highway and fell from a height of about 15 meters onto a car parked in a car showroom in Jalan Pahang, but escaped with a fractured left thigh.
A video of the incident, which occurred around 5.40pm on Saturday, has gone viral on social media.
The head of the Kuala Lumpur Traffic Investigation and Control Department, Zulkefly Yahya, said the girl was riding in a minivan with her 41-year-old father when she is believed to have lost control of the steering wheel, causing the vehicle to skid and crash. against the road barrier.
The impact is believed to have thrown the girl, who was in the back seat, out of the vehicle.
The girl was shot through the windshield and over the road barrier before landing in a car parked in a car showroom below the DUKE overpass in Jalan Pahang, he said.
He said the girl was being treated at Kuala Lumpur Hospital but that her father was not injured.