Express bus driver fails dope test during roadblock


Close check: Vehicles going through a roadblock during the special operation for Hari Raya Aidiladha at the Gombak toll plaza. — AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: An express bus driver found himself in hot water after he failed a urine test during a roadblock here by the Road Transport Department (JPJ).

Kuala Lumpur JPJ director Hamidi Adam, during a press conference at the Gombak JPJ enforcement station here yesterday, said the driver, in his 30s, tested positive for morphine after being stopped during the roadblock at the Gombak toll plaza yesterday.

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