GEORGE TOWN: One man died while three others were injured after the car they were traveling in skidded before colliding with a backhoe along the Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway near Bukit Dumbar early this morning.
A spokesman for the Penang Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) operations center said the deceased was a 28-year-old man who died at the scene after being trapped behind the passenger seat.
“The fire department received an emergency call at 4.16am and a team went to the scene of the incident and found that a Proton Saga car had skidded and crashed into a backhoe. There were four people in the car
“Two men suffered minor injuries and a woman suffered serious injuries and was rushed to hospital, while another man who was sitting behind the passenger seat was trapped and pronounced dead at the scene made by the medical team of the Ministry of Health,” he said in a statement. statement today.
Firefighters removed the victim’s body using special equipment within 15 minutes before it was sent to Penang Hospital for an autopsy.
