Close call for lorry driver


  • Nation
  • Friday, 23 Nov 2007

KUALA KANGSAR: When tonnes of earth came crashing down the hill slope, Tay Hock Kee thought he was going to be buried alive in his lorry. 

He was transporting sand to the YTL cement plant at 10am when suddenly the slope at Bukit Berapit in Padang Rengas gave way at Km64 of the Jalan Ipoh-Taiping trunk road.  

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