Lorry driver in crash that killed nine FRU personnel remanded four days

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The lorry driver involved in the crash that killed nine Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) personnel in Teluk Intan has been remanded for four days from Wednesday (May 14).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/2c5dm2he  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The lorry driver involved in the crash that killed nine FRU personnel on Tuesday has been

00:07remanded for four days. The remand order against the 45-year-old man was issued by Magistrate

00:13Naidatul Athira Azman on Wednesday. The man is being investigated under Section 41 of the Road

00:21Transport Act 1987 for causing death by reckless or dangerous driving. Those convicted face

00:27imprisonment for two to ten years, along with a fine of up to 50,000 ringgit, and also be disqualified

00:34from holding or obtaining a driving license for not less than five years. The crash occurred at about

00:418.50 a.m. on Tuesday, when a truck carrying 18 FRU personnel returning to Ipo from an assignment

00:48in Teluk, Intan, was rammed by a gravel-laden lorry along Jalan Chiku, Sungai Lampam. The FRU vehicle

00:56was part of a seven-vehicle convoy. Preliminary investigations revealed that the lorry had a

01:01malfunction that caused its steering system to fail. The lorry driver also has six prior criminal cases

01:08against him, mostly related to narcotics, as well as multiple outstanding traffic summonses.

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