Firemen use power tools cutting the wreckage to free the trapped victim.
BINTANGOR (May 30): One person was killed and four injured in an accident involving a car and a van at Mile 8 KJD Road, Sungai Mador about 24km from around 10.20am yesterday.
The deceased has been identified as Flora Dayong, 29, from Rumah Sungai Merurun, Julau who was travelling with her husband Ezekiel Rentap Irie from Betong a teacher at SK Padanum.
According to Fire and Rescue Department chief here, Nicholas Belulin, they helped to bring out Flora who was trapped in the badly wrecked car, but unfortunately she was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Her husband who was seriously injured and also trapped in the car was freed by passers-by at around 2pm and is treated at the Sarikei Hospital, he said.
The three injured persons in the van were identified as the driver Yii Deck Sii, 30, and two female passengers identified as Chieng Ai Ling, 33, and Lu Lay Leng, 54.
Lu has a broken right thigh, Chieng suffered head injuries while Yii injured his legs and chest.
The accident happened on the still-under-construction Pan Borneo Highway, but was open for two-way traffic.
The police were investigating the actual cause of the accident, Nicholas said.