Tour bus company involved in fatal Genting Highlands crash charged

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The company of the tour bus involved in a crash that claimed two lives on Jalan Genting Highlands two months ago was charged at the Bentong magistrate's court on Aug 19 with two counts of allowing a driver to drive the bus without a licence and using a bus with an expired permit.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/GCHot  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The company operating the tour bus involved in a road accident that claimed two lives

00:06on Jalan Gernting Highlands in June was charged at the Bentong Magistrates' Court on Monday.

00:12M. Kumar Trans Tour Sendirian Berhad, represented by its director M. Kumar, pleaded not guilty

00:19to both the charges of allowing its bus driver to operate the vehicle without a license and

00:24using a bus with an expired permit.

00:27The bus driver, S. Anand Kumar, allegedly drove the vehicle in a reckless manner without

00:32a valid license, causing the death of two passengers.

00:36He had pleaded not guilty to the charges in the Raub Magistrates' Court in early July.

00:41During the incident that happened at the 16.5 km of Jalan Gernting Highlands on June 29,

00:47the bus with 21 people on board veered off and crashed into a road divider when descending

00:53from Genting Highlands.

00:55Two Chinese tourists, Zhang Ping and Wang Suhong, were killed while a dozen others sustained

01:00injuries.

01:01The incident prompted the government to beef up enforcement against errant tour agencies

01:05and tour bus service providers.

01:08The Land Public Transport Agency has since revoked the bus operator's license.

01:12The court set Sept. 27 for re-mention on the case against the bus company.

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