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Twenty passengers died when the express bus they were travelling in crashed into a gully at the 229th kilometre of the North-South Expressway near Bukit Berapit, here. It is learnt that the bus, heading for Alor Star from Malacca, hit the guardrail before crashing into a boulder and landing on its side in a gully next to the expressway in the 4.20am incident on Monday.


The impact tore off the roof of the bus. Seven of the passengers were injured and they were sent to Taiping Hospital for treatment. The 20 who died included, six from Malacca, three from Kedah, one from Penang and one from Indonesia.

The bus driver who is also among the dead, Rohizan Abu Bakar, 38, had been issued 13 summonses and two warrants of arrests for traffic offences and the company of the transportation provider Syarikat Kenderaan Bukit Gantang Bhd, the owner of the ill-fated bus, was slapped with 19 summonses since 1991. The cause of the crash, based on preliminary investigations, was human negligence but it has not been confirmed. It was believed that the driver felt asleep while driving the bus.