KUALA LUMPUR – A planned thanksgiving feast has taken a shocking twist after Muhammad Amir Mohd Yusoff was killed in a race car crash at Dato Sagor Circuit in Pasir Salak yesterday.
The 32-year-old, who was a spectator at the race, had wanted to hold a feast on January 7 for his 60-year-old mother as she is recovering from a surgery. It was also to celebrate his car workshop’s booming business.
This was shared by his widow Nor Idayu Yunus, 29, who is three-months pregnant with their fourth child.
“Now the ‘kenduri kesyukuran’ (thanksgiving feast) has turned into a ‘kenduri arwah’ (feast for the deceased) for him. The preparation for the feast had been done, and family members were invited,” she told Berita Harian when met at Changkat Melintang Hospital’s forensic unit last night.
During the incident, she said she was with their two children, aged six and 10 months, at their home in Assam Kumbang, Taiping.
Their 3-year-old son was watching the race with the victim.
Nor Idayu said she received a devastating phone call at 4pm yesterday from her husband’s worker informing her of the incident.
“By the time my kids and I got to the hospital, the doctor said my husband had died. We should have been out as a family ushering the new year.
“I’m not sure if my children understand what is happening, perhaps the eldest does. But our unborn child will not meet my husband,” she was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, worker Ahmad Ferham Mohammad Noor, 22, and Amir’s son were not in the stands during the incident.
Ferham said he saw the crash when he left to find Amir.
“It happened so quickly.”
Around 3.30pm yesterday, two of 12 vehicles, which were making a turn during the CCT Battle of Champions race, crashed to the right of the circuit and into a grassy area, hitting Amir.
Perak police chief Datuk Seri Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri said the autopsy revealed that the victim died of injuries to his head and bleeding in the lungs.
“Investigations are ongoing and the case has been classified as sudden death,” he said in a statement today. – The Vibes, January 1, 2023
