Serdang bus crash: Driver gets seven days' jail, RM8,000 fine

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The Magistrate's Court in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, sentenced a bus driver to seven days' jail and fined him RM8,000 for reckless driving that caused injury to three kindergarten students and a teacher near Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) on Saturday (Aug 2).   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3dtnwpsk  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00A bus driver was sentenced to seven days in jail and fined 8,000 ringgit by the magistrate's

00:07court in Pertarlingjaya on Tuesday for reckless driving that injured three kindergarten pupils

00:12and a teacher near University Putra, Malaysia, UPM. Magistrate Noor Nastasya Mo Taruddin

00:19meted out the sentence to 44-year-old Mohamed Hamir Masruddin, who pleaded guilty to the

00:25offence under Section 42, subsection 1 of the Road Transport Act, 1987. The court also ordered

00:32Hamir to serve seven months' imprisonment if he fails to pay the fine. According to the charge,

00:38Hamir endangered the public by driving recklessly along Jalan Perziaran University 1 at 12.18pm

00:44on Saturday. The act provides, for up to five years' jail, a fine of 5,000 to 15,000 ringgit,

00:50and disqualification from holding a driving licence for at least five years upon conviction.

00:55Serdang OCPD Assistant Commissioner Mohamed Farid Ahmad confirmed on Saturday that a bus

01:02carrying five teachers and 30 kindergarten children had veered off the road and crashed

01:07into a tree during an outing. The injured victims sustained head injuries and were treated as

01:13outpatients at Hospital Serdang.

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