Car driver killed, friend seriously hurt in head-on collision with truck

LUNDU: A car driver was killed while his friend was seriously hurt when the vehicle they were in collided head-on with a pickup truck here yesterday.
DEADLY CRASH: A towing agent prepares to remove the wrecked Viva from the scene of the accident.

DEADLY CRASH: A towing agent prepares to remove the wrecked Viva from the scene of the accident.

The victim was identified as Awang Muhadzer Awang Padil, 32, of Sematan.

The fatal crash occurred around 2pm at Km28 Lundu-Kuching road when the victim’s Perodua Viva collided with a Toyota Hilux which was travelling towards Lundu town.

Muhadzer died on the spot while his unidentified friend travelling in the same car, sustained serious injuries and was warded at Lundu hospital.

The driver of the pickup truck, a 29-year-old man from Kuching, was not hurt in the incident.

Traffic police officers were present at the scene to investigate the crash, along with firemen from Bau and Lundu, who were called to extricate the victims from the badly-wrecked Viva.

District police chief DSP Wong Chee Kiong confirmed the accident to the media and said that police have detained the Hilux driver to assist in investigations into the fatal accident.