Woman’s car crushed by tree just weeks after purchase


Unfortunate morning: Loh checking the damaged parts of her new car which she bought just a few weeks ago, at the scene where two trees fell down in Macalister Road, Penang. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: Company executive Karen Loh drove to a cafe in her new car, which she bought just weeks earlier, anticipating a lovely breakfast on a Saturday morning.

Just minutes into chowing down, she heard a loud sound, and people around her started screaming.

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