Death of a Medical Student
posted in - Nation, - Palmdoc |
She was young, vibrant and intelligent. She was a medical student with a bright future ahead of her. She had a blog.
All this ended on Friday in a bus crash that claimed three young lives, one of them being Nian Ning.
It leaves her Family to mourn the loss of a beautiful, intelligent go-getter
She had the world at her feet but death robbed medical student Lee Nian Ning of a brilliant future.
The straight As student, former state swimmer and accomplished Girl Guide was on the double-decker express bus from Penang to Kuala Lumpur which crashed near Slim River on Friday.
Nian Ning, 21, a Public Service Department (PSD) scholar at the University of New South Wales in Australia who was on her way to visit friends in Kuala Lumpur, was among three passengers who perished when the driver lost control of the bus and slammed into a divider.
“We learnt that the driver had 13 summonses against him. Why had the company not screened him and realised that he was not competent to drive that bus?
“I wonder why the authorities still allowed such a monster to roam our streets?” asked Nian Ning’s distraught father Lee Hock Chuan, 50, a company human resources director.
Yes, why indeed was this person still holding his bus driver’s licence when he had 13 outstanding summonses? The Star had also reported
Records in www.myeg.com.my revealed that Ruslim Isa, 43, who was sent to the Teluk Intan Hospital for a broken right leg after the 5.55pm accident, had seven summonses issued against him for speeding, five for illegal overtaking and one for not using an overhead bridge.
The summonses, amounting to RM2,660, dated as far back as 2000.
What excuses will the Transport Minister and his officials in the Ministry give now? How many more horrific Bus crashes must we endure before something is done to prevent further carnage on the roads?
Our thoughts and condolences go out to the Lee family.
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January 29th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Ya it’s sad for this to happen. The other 2 lifes were just as precious as Nian Ning
January 31st, 2008 at 1:01 am
Sad preventable deeaths if only this dangerous driver has been taken off the streets.