COMMENT * Malaysia's Long Haul Bus Rides
Was an accident waiting to happenSingapore -Electric New Paper Singapore, by Chong Shin Yen -August 20, 2007: -- He claims he can be on the road 20 hours each day for 10 consecutive days... For drivers like him, rest is two to three hours' sleep on a vacant seat... Malaysia's worst express bus accident near Bukit Gantang on 13 Aug that killed 20 people has put the spotlight on their poor working conditions and long hours... One more died on Friday, a 3-year-old boy who had been pulled out of the bus with serious injuries... The driver was among those who died... (Pictures by Nanyang Siang Pau New Straits Times - Crushed: The ill-fated express bus in the Bukit Gantang accident had fallen into a 5m-deep ditch)
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