MUM, TWO KIDS KILLED IN CRASH

By : Chong Chee Seong

Three people — a woman and her two daughters — were killed when their vehicle crashed into the back of a lorry on the North-South Expressway on Sunday.

MUAR: A woman and two of her young daughters were killed while her husband and another daughter were injured when their sports utility vehicle collided with a trailer lorry on the North-South Expressway on Sunday.

Chua Yin Fong, 35, and her daughters Chan Yin Yin, 10, and Ai Teng, 6, were killed instantly in the 8.30pm incident at Km143 of the expressway, between Tangkak and Pagoh.

Her husband Chan Ching Peng, 41, was warded at the Tangkak Hospital while their other daughter, Ai Wen, 7, was admitted to the same hospital's intensive care unit.

They were heading home to Nilai after visiting Ching Peng's mother in Kulai when the incident occurred.

Rescuers took about 20 minutes to extract the bodies from the wrecked car.
Holding back his tears, Ching Peng said he was unsure how to tell his surviving child, Ai Wen, that her mother and sisters were dead.

R. Gunasegaran, the 26-year-old driver of the lorry, said he heard a loud crash coming from the back of his trailer and only realised that the Chan family's Toyota Fortuner had rammed into the rear of his vehicle when he checked the side mirrors.

District deputy police chief Superintendent Lim Choon Guan said initial investigations revealed that Ching Peng failed to control his vehicle and crashed into the rear of the trailer.

SOURCE: NEW STRAITS TIMES, 2 DECEMBER 2008