KUCHING: A teenage motorist was killed after his vehicle crashed into a tree at Mile 9 along the Kuching-Serian road early yesterday morning.
The 17-year-old boy surnamed Lee, who hails from Siburan, was said to have died on the spot with serious injuries.
According to sources, a lorry driver happened to pass by the scene and saw a Proton Perdana under the tree.
He also saw smoke billowing and flames shooting from the car and immediately grabbed a fire extinguisher from the back of his lorry to put it out.
Bomba and police, who arrived shortly at the scene, took about an hour to extricate the deceased who was pinned in the driver’s seat.
His family arrived shortly at the scene, still in shocked with the news and visibly tried to wake him up.
The deceased’s body was taken to the Sarawak General Hospital for a post-mortem.
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