Another Accident

Motorcyclists' Tragic End

It was supposed to be a Sunday cruise along BDC road so I can ease my mind off work. When I saw a flurry of activities and Police Cars I knew it was not a good sign. I initially thought that it was the day to day Police Road Blocks. However when people ran across the road as if there was something interesting I quickly parked my car and joined them.

Police officers guiding traffic - what's going on here?

So there must have been an accident - this stretch of road at BDC has seen a lot of it lately. There's a sudden bend after the Everise Traffic light on the road going towards the BDC Roundabout.

Google Map which I grabbed to show the location of the accident


Four Police Cars showed up with an ambulance

So I went over to the drain and noticed a motorbike with its smashed headlights. 'This can't be good' I said to myself. But the crowd was not looking at the motorbike. So I pushed through the crowd and noticed......

The smashed motorcycle and a helmet in the drain

There I was with the large crowd looking at a body in the drain. First instant I asked myself if the person was still alive but he does not seem to be breathing. So all of us in the crowd just peered from above and wondered how the accident happened. Seeing that there were two helmets I believed that there would have been two victims. The face of the person was covered by his shirt. Someone went in the drain to cover it I was told. The other person on the motorbike was rushed to the hospital by the 991 Team.

So the next thing that would go in anyone's mind is how could a fall into the drain kill someone. I do not want to find out after I saw the crack on one of the drain's concrete beam. The way its cracked i would want to believe that the motorcycle could have hit it but looking at the bike's position I believe it could not have been the bike. I just did not want to speculate anything at that point.

There's a crack on the beam - real bad

Near the drain I saw a plastic full of veggies which I believed belonged to the victims. I tried to get more details on what has happened but everyone there had their stories so I just gathered as much relevant information I can gather.

The plastic full of veggies

They must have been on their way back to their work place since they were carrying their bags full of clothes and veggies.

The medical personnel getting the details

According to the temporary identification, the person's name was named Numan Anak Jagan from Kampung Ensebang Quarry in Serian. He was 33 years old.

The Police trying to contact the relatives - bags belonging to the victims

The Police tried their best to contact the relatives by going through the handphone numbers found at the scene of the accident. Since there were two victims and both were dead, it was hard to find out who was who. So the only option was to contact the numbers on the phone.

991 Personnels went in the drain to retrieve the body


911 Personnels securing the body to be lifted to the waiting ambulance

At that point I just wondered about those advertisements about preventing accidents. Could this have been prevented but I did not have much information to go about. Two lives gone - just at the blink of an eye. Probably they did not have time to find out that it would be their last ride. My experience as a motorcyclist would say that they may have not been familiar with that bend at the road which sometimes can be decieving after the traffic light. Going about 70 - 90 km per hours and knowing they would crash - and being the one at the steering I would have opted crashing into the drain as it would be a safe option rather than hitting the trees - but those beams along the drain can also kill if you hit it head on.

That Phonecall

I managed to get on record - the effort made by the Police to find the relatives of the victims. This is the phonecall that everyone dreads to recive but the officer was tactful enough to inform them that it would be better to go to the Hospital.

The phone call you would not want to get - Life is as such.

*This blog post has been edited whereby the 2 closeup image of the dead motorcyclist has been removed as requested by one of the my readers. As indicated that some children may be reading this blog. Thus the less 'scary' photo of the body & videoclip will be maintained. Thank you (10 Aug 2007).