Forwarded from Jayelle's Blog
After a thorough comb through of news articles, blogs and forums, the moments before the bus landed on its side continues to haunt me.
According to the survivors, the top deck was swaying left and right as the driver was going really fast. Some passengers at the bottom deck saw the driver smsing a lot and driving really fast in the heavy rain.
After awhile the passengers felt something amiss and saw the bus driver STAND UP suddenly(while the bus was moving!) and split seconds later, the passengers screamed really loudly and the bus spun three times, hit the divider and careened to the opposite highway where an oncoming MPV crashed into the back of the bus.
Nian Ning and Mohd Zailani were sitting at the back row. I’m not sure about the other chinese boy who also passed away. But that’s what I’ve gathered. The passengers of the MPV only suffered minor injuries. To add insult to the injury, the bus driver only sustained a broken right leg. I’m curious to know what is happening to him now though.
A facebook group has also been set up in memory of her:
In Loving Memory of Lee Nian Neng(1987-2008).
Please post this on your blog now to help:
Chung Lern and Nian Ning’s families would like all families and friends of the victims, dead or alive, in the Slim River Bus Crash to come forward and join them in taking action against the bus company. Stand up to seek justice for these three innocent individuals, who were all so young and full of life.
If you have a blog, please call out to ANYONE who
knows someone who survived or did not survive
the crash to come forward to join the Lee family.
Make a huge difference, make a huge fuss.
For now, you may contact Lee Chung Lern at chunglern@gmail.com or preferably on his handphone at 012-6670368.
A petition will always come into good use in times like these. We’ve yet to grasp the objectives of the petition but of course it would be forwarded to the bus company, the ministry of transport(nevermind, we can still try our luck) and being a tad bit ambitious, the prime minister.
We don’t want to disturb Chung Lern and Nian Ning’s family yet, but we’re trying to understand what are our objectives if a petition should be made. Please give us your suggestions and watch this space.
I don’t want to be seen as overly nosy in the business of someone I don’t know but I feel that the demise of these innocent lives were so uncalled for. I’m feeling my friend’s pain. It could’ve been me, I can’t stress that enough. This is the most that I can do.
For all you know, it could be me, just your average young bus rider wanting to go home.
Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Jayelle
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Off the record....
After getting over the news of Heath Ledger's sudden death sent by dear KH, another sms hit me few days ago by a course mate asking me to reconfirm the death of an acquaintance of mine that she was killed in a bus 'accident'....
And there we are with the news flooding the papers the very next day...
O-M-G!!!
That was the most shocking news this year to me....damn!!...I know the victim, Lee Nian Ning thru Ausmat 2 years ago, different intake though...but it was damn sad mannn~~~gosh....
And you guys will know her details by reading today's paper...(so I dun have to repeat la)...medical student in UNSW weiiii....
Her BF (Chung Lern) must be so sad~~and I've seen him around the Uni last
time...his bro's name is LEE CHONG WEI (Fellow Ausmat-ian too)...what a co-incidence huh...
Ahhh....and reading her blog almost made me cry
....haihh.....dunno what else to say....so heartbreaking laa....very uncomfy~~
http://nianz.blogspot.com/2007/04/for-year-of-lovelaugther-and-tears.html
RIP Nian Ning...(but how could she???...they robbed off her dream!!!!)
p/s: To all my frens who travel by buses....if there is the need to talk or 'tegur'
the bus driver during the journey....PLEASE do so...
