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Gerik crash: Bus driver to be charged tomorrow
IPOH: The driver of the bus involved in the crash that claimed the lives of 15 Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) students in Gerik on Monday will be charged tomorrow.
Perak police chief Datuk Noor Hisam Nordin said the 39-year-old man, who was apprehended after being discharged from Taiping Hospital, would be taken to the Gerik Court.
"Tomorrow, after Friday prayers, he will be charged at the Gerik Magistrate's Court," he said when contacted today.
Earlier, it was reported that police arrested the bus driver at about 5.45pm after he was discharged from hospital.
He will be taken to the Gerik police headquarters to facilitate investigations under Section 41(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987 for causing death by reckless or dangerous driving.
It is learnt that the man was accompanied by three policemen, believed to be from the Gerik police headquarters, when they left the hospital compound.
It was reported that the bus driver was among those injured in the crash. Noor Hisam had said the driver sustained injuries to his hand.
On Monday, the bus, carrying 42 UPSI students, was travelling from Jertih, Terengganu, to the university's main campus when it collided with a Perodua Alza at Km53 of the East-West Highway in Gerik.
Thirteen students died at the scene, while two others succumbed to their injuries in hospital.
The driver, his attendant, the other UPSI students and a family of four in the Alza all sustained injuries of varying degrees.
