Toddler killed after car carrying family of eight crashes into trailer at NSE

MUAR: A toddler was killed while seven of his family members sustained injuries after the family’s car crashed into a trailer at KM148.1 along the North-South Expressway southbound near Bukit Gambir here.

The Johor Fire and Rescue Department received a distress call about the incident at 2.59pm on Wednesday (Nov 20) and immediately deployed six firemen with one Light Fire Rapid Tender (LFRT) from Bukit Gambir fire station to the scene.

According to the operation commander Jahairi Syukor, firemen arrived at the scene at 3.17pm where the incident involved nine victims.

“There are eight people inside the car – three men, one woman, three boys and one girl, while the trailer was driven by a male.

“However, it is unfortunate that one of the victims from the car, a young boy, believed to be three years old, died at the scene,” he said.

Jahairi added that seven other victims sustained injuries due to the incident and were sent to the nearest hospital for immediate medical treatment while the trailer driver was unharmed.

“Firefighters managed to pull the victims out of the car as none of them was wedge inside the vehicle,” he said adding that the operation ended at 3.44pm.