Daughter's Heartbreak: Presumed Minor Crash Claims Lives Of Parents

BATU PAHAT, Oct 3 (Bernama) -- The daughter of a couple who perished in a road crash at Kilometre 72.5 of Jalan Batu Pahat-Mersing yesterday never expected that an incident she first thought was minor would claim her parents' lives.

Ain Zanariah Mislan, 33, said she received news that the car carrying her mother, Nor Azilah A Rahman, 49, and father, Mislan Osman, 54, collided with a lorry while returning home from Endau, Mersing, after sending off her grandmother.

She was at work when she received the call around 5.30 pm. Her husband, Mohd Hazerul, 33, then broke the news that her parents had died, while her two younger sisters, also in the Hyundai Matrix, were injured.

"At first, I thought it was just a minor accident... my husband tried calling my sister's mobile phone, but someone else answered and said our parents had been pronounced dead at the scene. The person who answered was a driver right behind their car.

"We also made a video call with the woman we called 'akak'. What broke our hearts most was seeing our parents pinned inside the car ourselves," she said at her residence in Kampung Parit Pulai, near here today.

According to Ain Zanariah, her husband said her father flashed an unusually different smile the morning before the accident, before they left for Mersing at 9.30 am.

She added that a week before the incident, her father was often seen tidying the house, including sweeping and mowing the lawn, which was out of character for him.

"Over the past week, my late father kept cleaning the compound thoroughly, sweeping the grounds, mowing the lawn, and doing other chores as if he knew many people would come over," she said.

Yesterday, it was reported that a married couple was killed while their two daughters were severely injured in a collision between a car and a lorry at Kilometre 72.5 of Jalan Batu Pahat-Mersing.

Kluang police chief ACP Bahrin Mohd Noh said the crash involved a lorry driven by a 34-year-old man heading from Kluang towards Kahang, and a Hyundai Matrix coming from the opposite direction.

He said investigations revealed that the Hyundai Matrix, driven by a 54-year-old local man, was believed to have lost control due to slippery road conditions before veering into the opposite lane and colliding with the lorry.

-- BERNAMA