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Trailer bursts into flames after crashing on PLUS expressway

Seremban police have identified driver, passenger as casualties

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 20 Jan 2023 3:50PM

Trailer bursts into flames after crashing on PLUS expressway
According to Seremban police, the victims of the trailer crash at KM 259.6 of the North-South Expressway (south-bound) are driver Mazlan Molot, 48, from Taman Putra Damai, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, and Fauziah Uyop, in her 40s, believed to be Mazlan’s wife. – @bernamadotcom Twitter pic, January 20, 2023

SEREMBAN – A trailer burst into flames, killing its driver and a passenger when it went out of control and crashed into the road divider at KM 259.6 of the North-South Expressway (south-bound) near the Seremban-Port Dickson toll plaza exit today.

Seremban district police chief Nanda Maarof identified the victims, who were burned in the crash which occurred at about 9am, as trailer driver Mazlan Molot, 48, from Taman Putra Damai, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, and Fauziah Uyop, in her 40s, believed to be Mazlan’s wife.

The trailer was carrying plastic pellets and the crash caused a 6km traffic congestion on the expressway, he said in a statement today.

 The bodies of the two victims were sent to the Tuanku Ja’afar Seremban Hospital for a post-mortem. – Bernama, January 20, 2023

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