{"id":2371,"date":"2008-09-25T10:40:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T02:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/09\/25\/first-lrt-accident-victims-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2008-09-25T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T02:42:32","slug":"first-lrt-accident-victims-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/09\/25\/first-lrt-accident-victims-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"First LRT accident victims in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is the first accident that involved injury. Not bad, since it took more than 12 years for the first accident to happen. A bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/Frontpage\/2359369\/Article\/index_html\">history<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"abstract\"> Before Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd (SPNB) took over ownership and operations of the Ampang Line, it was known as Sistem Transit Aliran Ringan Sdn Bhd (Star LRT).<\/p>\n<p>   Incorporated on Nov 13, 1992, it was the country&#8217;s first LRT project.<\/p>\n<p>The company signed a franchise agreement with the government for the development, ownership and operation of the system on Dec 22, 1992. Work on the project began two years later.<\/p>\n<p>It started operations between the Ampang and Sultan Ismail stations in 1996, followed two years later by the branch line from Chan Sow Lin station to Sri Petaling station. The line from the Sultan Ismail station to Sentul Timur station began operations in 1998.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The accident happened on the STAR Ampang line, about 200 metres from Bukit Jalil station. The train, coming from KL, was heading towards the last station, Sri Petaling. Then used to to take this route. Wonder what she will feel when hear about this!<\/p>\n<p>The first train (six-coach) stopped before reaching the station, and another train rammed into it from behind. The trains were running in short intervals of 3 to 5 minutes during that period (late afternoon says NST, but 6.30pm <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/9\/25\/nation\/2116102&amp;sec=nation\">says<\/a> The Star!). NST <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/Frontpage\/2359368\/Article\/index_html\">says<\/a> one of the four injured passengers is in critical condition and warded in UKM hospital. The Star reported six injuries, but none critical. About 300 people were in the train.<\/p>\n<p>According to NST <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/Frontpage\/2359370\/Article\/index_html\">reports<\/a>, the passengers were trapped for 25 minutes until they were rescued. The lights and air-conds went off after the crash. In Star, a passenger said he waited for 20 minutes before resorting with others to exit using the emergency door.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few men and myself helped other passengers out and we walked along the tracks back to the Bukit Jalil station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>RapidKL boss Suffian Baharuddin says it may be caused by a technical problem. Transport Minister Ong Tee Keat visited the site yesterday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is the first accident that involved injury. Not bad, since it took more than 12 years for the first accident to happen. A bit of history: Before Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd (SPNB) took over ownership and operations of the Ampang Line, it was known as Sistem Transit Aliran Ringan Sdn Bhd (Star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}