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GEORGE TOWN: A 20-year-old police officer and truck driver were seriously injured in an accident when their vehicles were involved in a road accident at KM137 southbound on the North-South Expressway on Tuesday (December 22). ) early in the morning.
Central Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Shafee Abd Samad said that during the 3.15am incident, the 33-year-old driver, who works as a driver at an e-commerce platform company, was driving from his home in Bukit Mertajam to make a delivery. . Pokok Sena when the truck he was driving collided with the motorcycle the police officer was driving.
“It was believed that when the collision occurred, the left tire of the vehicle exploded, causing the driver to lose control of his vehicle, skid and hit the divider on the left of the road.
“The collision also caused the truck driver to be ejected from his vehicle,” he said in a statement Tuesday.
ACP Shafee said there was also a 25-meter-long mark on the road made by the edge of the motorcycle before the truck skidded on the road divider.
He added that the motorcycle is believed to have collided with another car before being hit by the truck.
Both victims were sent to Seberang Jaya Hospital and were in critical condition.
The case is being investigated under section 43 (1) of the Road Transport Act 1987.
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