Senior citizen hurt after crashing van into parked pickup truck

BINTANGOR: A 63-year-old man was slightly injured after he rammed his van into a pickup truck, which was parked on the roadside at the junction of Jalan Narasit and Jalan Tulai, around 20km from here Sunday afternoon.

Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) Bintangor chief Nicholas Belulin said the van driver was pinned to his seat when firefighters arrived at the scene of the accident around 2.15pm.

“My men used a rescue tool to cut off the dented door of the van and it took them about 20 minutes to release the victim,” he said.

Nicholas said the driver of the pickup truck was not hurt in the accident as he was not in the vehicle when the crash occurred.

As the van driver refused to be taken to a health clinic for observation and treatment, firefighters later handed over the case to the police.