Monday April 1, 2013
Family of LRT site crane accident victim seeks answers
By AUSTIN CAMOENS
austin@thestar.com.my
KUALA
LUMPUR: For the past three years, A. Vijayasingam drove every day from
Kampung Pandan to work near Ara Damansara without any incident until
last Friday.
That day, Vijayasingam's Hyundai Sonata was caught
in rush hour traffic along Jalan Lapangan Terbang Subang when a 10-tonne
construction equipment hoisted by a crane at an LRT extension site
nearby fell and crushed his car.
The development executive was
killed instantly in the freak accident while another driver, Arifpuddin
Mansoruddin, 42, in a Nissan Frontier, was injured.
Vijayasingam's
family is finding it difficult to come to terms with his sudden death
and wants answers to how such an accident could have happened.
His
brother-in-law Jai Ganesh, 36, said Vijayasingam had travelled along
that route daily from his home in Kampung Pandan to get to work near Ara
Damansara.
“My brother-in-law was a good and responsible man. It
is hard for us to accept this,” he said, adding that Vijayasingam's
wife was grief-stricken by the tragedy.
“She's inconsolable,” he
said, adding that the construction company should have assured the
safety of all motorists travelling on that particular stretch of road.
“The
family is looking at the possibility of taking legal action against the
construction company,” he said, adding that Vijayasingam's funeral and
cremation were held at around 10am yesterday.
Later, during a
visit to Vijayasingam's family by Prasarana senior officials, its group
director for infrastructure services Masnizam Hisham described the
incident as “truly unfortunate”.
“We came to offer our condolences and extend a helping hand to the family,” she said.
Petaling
Jaya OCPD Asst Comm Arjunaidi Mohamed said they were investigating the
case from several angles, adding that so far, no criminal element had
been found.
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