Burning oil tanker crosses into oncoming lane, triggering multi-vehicle accident on Elite Highway

NILAI, Oct 13 – A tanker carrying a cargo of palm oil caught fire before losing control and veering into the opposite lane on the highway, leading to an accident at kilometer 44.6 of the Northbound Elite Highway here yesterday three other vehicles were involved.

Nilai district police chief Supt Abdul Malik Hasim said preliminary investigations revealed that the accident occurred at 12 noon when the tanker truck driven by a 53-year-old local lost control and crashed into the oncoming lane.

He said due to this, the tanker truck en route from Jasin, Melaka to Klang, Selangor collided with a Proton Saga car which overturned in the right lane, causing the car to swerve in the middle of the highway and crossed.

“The tanker then hit the right side of the guardrail until it crossed into the oncoming lane and stopped in the hard shoulder, still burning.

“As a result of the first accident involving the Proton Saga and the tanker, debris was thrown onto the highway, resulting in two other vehicles, a Perodua Bezza and a Mazda CX3, crashing into the debris from opposite directions,” he said in a statement yesterday Explanation.

He said the driver of the Proton Saga, a 21-year-old woman who sustained minor injuries, was later taken to Tuanku Jaafar Hospital in Seremban for treatment while the others were not injured while the case was filed under Section 43 (1). ) was classified ) APJ 1987 and the investigations have begun.

Yesterday, a 20-second video clip went viral on social media showing a burning oil tanker veering into the opposite lane of the highway, implicating three other vehicles in the incident. —Bernama