Past bus tragedies

July 31, 2006 

Twelve pilgrims on the way to St Anne’s Feast were killed when a chartered bus crashed at the 160th kilometre of the North-South Expressway near Nibong Tebal. Thirty-five others were injured. 

Dec 1, 2003 

Fourteen passengers were killed in an early morning collision involving two buses – a school bus which was converted for commercial use and an express bus – at the 63rd kilometre of the Kuala Lipis-Merapoh trunk road. Twenty-three others were injured. 

April 21, 2001  

Twelve women and a boy were killed when a bus skidded and crashed into a ditch off the Pengkalan Hulu-Baling road near Baling.  

Jan 15, 2001 

Nine people were killed and five seriously injured when an express bus and a  

trailer lorry collided head-on at the 24th kilometre of the Sarikei-Sibu road during heavy rain. 

Dec 22, 1999 

A Mutiara express bus caught fire after plunging into a ravine at Kampung Bayu in Paloh, near Gua Musang killing three passengers and injuring eight. 

July 16, 1996 

A bus, ferrying a group of factory workers and their families on a holiday excursion, plunged into a 120m-deep ravine near the Genting Highlands Resort, killing 17 of them. Six were children. 

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