00:00Two people were killed when their car collided with a backhoe carrying out excavation work
00:07near the Kampong Gelam traffic junction early Wednesday morning.
00:11Port Dixon Police Chief Superintendent Idy Sham Mohamed said that four others traveling
00:16in the car suffered light injuries in the 1.35 a.m. accident.
00:21The deceased were the 24-year-old car driver and an 18-year-old front-seat passenger who
00:27was a college student.
00:29The Fire and Rescue Department personnel had to extricate their remains from the wreckage.
00:34Two other female college students aged 18 and 19 and two males aged 17 and 16 were injured
00:41and were taken out from the wreckage by the public.
00:45Police said preliminary investigations revealed that the deceased driver was unemployed while
00:50the 17-year-old male teenager was a laborer and the 16-year-old was in secondary school.
00:56The driver was believed to have lost control of the vehicle while trying to avoid a cone
01:01and crashed into the backhoe.
01:03Eyewitnesses are urged to call the nearest police station to assist in investigations.
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