The Ministry of Transport immediately acknowledged that velocity was one of many the reason why it occurred A deadly accident involving a bus carrying a scholar of Sultan Idris College of Training (UPSI) college students final month.
The findings had been introduced in a preliminary report issued by the ministry’s particular activity power the place the bus was believed to have been pushed greater than 117.6 km/h earlier than slipping and launched at Kilometer 53 East-West Street (Jelly-Gerik), Perak on June 09, 2025 and led to the demise of 15 passengers.
Analyzes are made not solely primarily based on video from dashcam A Honda Odyssey reduce off the bus earlier than it was launched, and it was additionally potential to have in mind facets corresponding to bus gravity facilities, bending radius, friction coefficient, highway gradient and extra.
On account of the calculation, the particular activity power discovered that the vital velocity for the bus slipped was between 104.2 km/h to 111.1 km/h, whereas the vital velocity for it was turned between 111.3 km/h to 114.5 km/h.
“Due to this fact, the minimal velocity of the bus throughout the incident is estimated at 111.3 km/h, which is the minimal stage to allow the overturned incident within the geometric state of affairs of the flip,” the report wrote. The incident occurred at a bend down the hill with a velocity restrict set at 60 km/h.
The report additionally detailed the abstract of the incident, the place it occurred at about 1.10am, June 9, 2025, when the Kenari Journey and Excursions firm was rented specifically to carry 42 UPSI college students, on the best way from Jerteh, Terengganu to Tanjung Malim, Perak, concerned in a deadly accident at KM53, JRTB and Jelly, Jelly, Jelly, Kelik,
“The bus is believed to have misplaced management of the hilly route earlier than breaking right into a automotive’s numerous utility (MUV) of Perodua Alza who was shifting in the identical course to Baling, Kedah. The automobile carried 4 household. The accident on a steep and steep sloping route precipitated the bus to show and switch left to the highway to the Gerik,
“On account of the accident, 15 UPSI college students had been killed, whereas each bus drivers and different passengers had been injured in numerous ranges. PERODUA Alza’s MUV drivers and passengers had been additionally injured, however no deaths had been reported within the automobile. The incident occurred at evening in sharp and steep sloping areas, in good climate and dry roads,”
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