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New Straits Times
06-08-2025
- Automotive
- New Straits Times
Car fire on Penang Bridge sparks major rush hour delays [WATCH]
GEORGE TOWN: A car caught fire on the Penang Bridge during rush hour this morning, triggering a major traffic jam and causing delays for commuters. The incident occurred on the island-bound side of the bridge, with traffic being brought to a halt in both directions as authorities worked to extinguish the blaze. According to a post on the Plus Trafik X account at 7.18am, a car was on fire at the Km6.8 mark of the bridge, heading towards the island. The fire department received a call about the fire at 7.04am. "When we arrived at the scene, a Perodua Myvi was on fire, with damages estimated at 90 per cent. No casualties were reported," said Penang Fire and Rescue Department assistant director of operations John Sagun Francis. He added that firefighters managed to put out the fire by 7.38am. Videos and photos of the incident were widely shared on social media.
New Straits Times
06-08-2025
- Automotive
- New Straits Times
Car fire on Penang Bridge sparks major rush hour delays
GEORGE TOWN: A car caught fire on the Penang Bridge during rush hour this morning, triggering a major traffic jam and causing delays for commuters. The incident occurred on the island-bound side of the bridge, with traffic being brought to a halt in both directions as authorities worked to extinguish the blaze. According to a post on the Plus Trafik X account at 7.18am, a car was on fire at the Km6.8 mark of the bridge, heading towards the island. The fire department received a call about the fire at 7.04am. "When we arrived at the scene, a Perodua Myvi was on fire, with damages estimated at 90 per cent. No casualties were reported," said Penang Fire and Rescue Department assistant director of operations John Sagun Francis. He added that firefighters managed to put out the fire by 7.38am. Videos and photos of the incident were widely shared on social media.
New Straits Times
03-06-2025
- General
- New Straits Times
Close shave for 16 people involved in six-vehicle crash in Bidor
IPOH: Sixteen people, including four children, cheated death in a six-vehicle crash at Km341.5 of the southbound lane of the North-South Expressway (NSE) near Bidor tonight. Perak Fire and Rescue Department operations division assistant director Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad said a team from Bidor Fire and Rescue Station rushed to the location 15 kilometres away after the department received a distress call at 7.26 pm. "The crash involved five cars and a five-ton lorry carrying fish, and there were no victims stuck or with serious injuries, only dizziness and trauma. "The accident is believed to have happened when the lorry could not brake in time and hit the Proton Exora, which then hit the other cars," he said in a statement tonight. Eight men, including an Arab man driving the Proton Exora, along with four women and four children were involved in the crash, he said. The four victims who suffered trauma and dizziness were taken to hospital by ambulance for further treatment and operations ended at 8.20 pm. The official PlusTrafik X account meanwhile announced that the vehicles involved in the accident have been moved and both the right and left lanes that were temporarily closed have been reopened to traffic, but traffic was still slow moving. – BERNAMA
