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 Six people were killed in an accident along the North-South Expressway near Rawang this morning.
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 The six were five passengers and the driver of an express bus. Two other passengers were injured in the crash.
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 The accident occurred at about 5.30am when the bus went out of control and skidded. It then hit the divider and overturned at Km443 of the highway.
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 The double-decker carried 34 passengers from Changlun, Kedah.
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 The accident cause a massive traffic jam along the highway in the morning.
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 All the dead and the injured were sent to the Sungai Buloh Hospital.
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 This is not the first time such horrific crashes involving buses have occurred.
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 Two years ago, 22 people were killed when a passenger bus in Perak overturned, also in North-South Expressway.
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 The driver of the bus apparently lost control of the vehicle which skidded before overturning near a village at Km229 of the highway in Bukit Gantang.
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 Nineteen people, including the bus driver, died on the spot while three died later in Taiping hospital.
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 The driver of the bus in what was considered the country's worst road accident was later found to have two outstanding arrest warrants for reckless driving.
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 It was not clear why he had managed to evade arrest or how he was hired by the operator of the express bus despite his record.
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The accident occurred at about 5.30am when the express bus went out of control, hit the divider and overturned at North-South Expressway near Rawang.


Six killed in early morning bus crash

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