Quick thinking driver saves lives


Firemen trying to put out the fire of a double-decker express bus at KM200 of the North-South Expressway in Kamunting near Taiping on Dec 1.

TAIPING: Quick thinking by a bus driver saved the lives of passengers of an express bus, which caught fire at KM200 of the North-South Expressway in Kamunting near here.

A Fire and Rescue Department spokesman said the driver promptly stopped the vehicle and directed his passengers to alight from the double-decker bus after smelling and seeing thick smoke from one of the tyres.

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