Three killed as car crashes into divider on KL-Seremban Expressway
KUALA LUMPUR: Three people have died after a car hit a highway exit divider along the KL–Seremban Expressway.
The Fire and Rescue Department said a 10-member team from the Sungai Besi Fire and Rescue Station (BBP) was deployed to the scene, adding that fire personnel took about one hour to remove them from the badly wrecked vehicle.
A photo released by the fire department showed several rescue personnel using a heavy metal cutter to cut through the middle section of the severely damaged car, which had slammed into a concrete divider.
Operations commander Shahrum Din said that upon arrival at the scene at 6.07am, the team found that the incident involved a Toyota Vios, which had veered off the road and collided with the exit divider on the motorway.
"There were three adult male Indian victims trapped in the vehicle, and the fire personnel took approximately one hour to extricate all of them," he said in a statement.
The victims were between the ages of 29 and 32.
Shahrum said the three victims were confirmed dead at the scene by medical personnel and were removed from the scene by the police.
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