PRESENT POINT POWER

ABOVE: The MCA Assemblyman Choong is recoverying in Hospital

ABOVE & BELOW: The newly opened Sungai Buluh hospital, easily accessed through the N-S expressway before Rawang

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ABOVE : MCA boss being briefed about about the condition of Choong & BELOW: MCA Youth Chief being brief about the accident by Choong's wife

Tanah Rata assemblyman Choong Chin Yin was injured in a road accident near Kuala Kubu Baru which saw 1 motorcyclist killed. Choong who injured his right wrist and a gnash on his forehead is being treated at the Sungai Buluh Hospital after having been transferred from the Kual Kubu Baru Hospital. Scores of relatives including MCA members and its president Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting visited him at the hospital

MCA President Datuk Ong K T : "Choong under observation is in stable condition and is being look after very well by the specialists at the hospital"

The accident happened at about 5 pm as he was traveling back to his home in KL from Kuantan . He was traveling with his driver in a Honda CRV when his vehicle was hit by a gas laden van traveling in the opposite direction which lost control. The vehicle swerved to the side which was then hit by a motorcyclist who died on the spot.

ABOVE & BELOW: The wreckage, the Honda CRV design saved the occupants with its safety design

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ABOVE: The twisted bonnet after the smash up and BELOW: The rear of the Honda CRV, the number plate damaged by the motorcycle's impact

2007/04/14

State assemblyman seriously injured in road accident

By : Lee Shi-Ian and June Ramli; N S T
KUALA LUMPUR, SAT.: Tanah Rata state assemblyman Choong Chin Yan is in stable condition after being involved in a traffic accident yesterday which left a factory worker dead. Darul Khalafa Hassan, 22, was killed when his motorcycle crashed into the Honda CRV driven by Choong, 54.

ABOVE: The smashed up air bag on the passenger side BELOW: a closed up of the damage

The incident occurred around 5.15pm along KM57 of the Kuala Lumpur-Ipoh trunk road when a lorry carrying gas cylinders went out of control and crashed into Choong’s Honda. Choong was driving from Kuantan towards Tanah Rata. Darul, who on his motorcycle, could not avoid Choong’s vehicle and crashed into it. Darul, who is from Taman Selesa, died on the way to the hospital. Another person in the CRV, who has yet to be identified, is also warded at the Sungai Buloh hospital with Choong.

ABOVE & BELOW: The air bags in the Honda CRV works and its deployment saved their lives

Lorry driver Mat Fozi Musa received outpatient treatment at Kuala Kubu Baru Hospital. Choong’s wife, Leon Boon Hong, said her husband is in stable condition. “He’s already conscious and talking. The first thing he said to me was that he was very tired and he wants to go for a massage,” she said. Leon said her husband sustained injuries on his upper body and got more than 10 stitches on his forehead and neck, arms and wrists. A stream of MCA officials visited Choong, including Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy and Human Resource Minister Datuk Seri Dr Fong Chan Onn.
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April 14, 2007 19:48 PM

ABOVE: The gas lorry that loss control and BELOW: the closed up of the damages

Tanah Rata Assemblyman Seriously Injured In Road Accident

KUALA LUMPUR, April 14 (Bernama) -- Tanah Rata State Assemblyman Choong Ching Yan was seriously injured in a road accident yesterday involving his car, a lorry and a motorcycle in which the motorcyclist was killed. The accident happened at Km57 of Jalan Kuala Lumpur-Ipoh near Rawang at 5.15 pm, a spokesman of the Kuala Kubu Baharu traffic police said today. He said Choong, who was returning to Cameron Highlands after attending a meeting in Kuantan, was involved in a head-on crash with the lorry which veered onto his path along the trunk road.

ABOVE & BELOW: The fallen bike that hitched a ride on the lorry that was towed to the Kubu Baru Police station

The motorcyclist, Dharal Khalafa Musa, 22, who was behind Choong knocked into the assemblyman's Honda CRV vehicle, said the spokesman when contacted by Bernama. The lorry driver escaped with minor injury. Choong, who was injured in the head and body, was rushed to the Kuala Kubu Baharu Hospital and then transferred to the Sungai Buloh Hospital today. He is reported to be in stable condition. Dharal Khalafa, who suffered serious head injuries, died as he was being taken to the Kuala Kubu Baru Hospital. The spokesman said the one-tonne lorry, laden with gas cylinders, was going from Kuala Kubu Baharu to Seremban.