Woman watches helplessly as husband burns to death in accident
JOHOR BARU: A woman could only watch helplessly as her husband was consumed by flames in a tragic car accident at Km41 of the North-South Expressway near Kulai yesterday.
The family’s Proton Persona was believed to have collided with a trailer and stalled.
The man, 29, was pinned to the driver’s seat and was unable to get out.
His wife, in her 30s, and their 3-year-old daughter were in the back.
Passers-by freed the woman and child, but not the husband.
Kulai Fire and Rescue Department operations chief Azizan Aziz said the department was notified about 6am about a burning car near the Kulai exit.
“When firefighters arrived at the scene, the car was in flames. It took 45 minutes to extinguish the blaze.”
He said firemen found the man’s remains in the car.
Kulai district police chief Superintendent Dzulkhairi Mokhtar said the remains were sent to the Kulai mortuary for a postmortem.
He said the woman was warded at the Kulai Hospital and her daughter was unhurt.
He said initial investigations suggested the car might have been involved in a collision with a trailer as there was severe damage to the front of the car.
“Based on eyewitness accounts, the victim may have crashed into the back of a moving trailer before the car caught fire.”