PETALING JAYA, Feb 4 — In just three weeks, four embarrassing car crashes have been reported.
The latest incident was yesterday morning when a 61-year-old woman rammed into a Mesra mart at a Petronas station in Jalan PJU 1A/20, Ara Damansara.
Petaling Jaya police chief ACP Azmi Abu Kassim said the woman had accidentally engaged the wrong gear as she was about to leave the station.
“She was leaving after refuelling her car at 9.30am. She intended to reverse the car but put it in drive mode instead,” he said.
The woman escaped unhurt.
The incident was similar to the one on Jan 18 when a 70-year-old man crashed his car into a CIMB bank in Damansara Uptown, shattering glass panels and hitting a wall next to the bank’s automated teller machines.
The retired army officer, whose car was parked in front of the bank, had intended to reverse.
He too had accidentally put the car in drive mode and thought he was applying the brakes but his foot was actually on the accelerator.
On Jan 20, four colleagues cheated death after the driver of the vehicle they were in accidentally accelerated and drove into a nine-metre ravine near Bangsar South.
The passengers and the driver sustained light injuries.
On Jan 25, a late night drive went awry for a young driver and his female passenger when the car they were in ended up in one of the scenic ponds in Taiping Lake Gardens.
The 24-year-old driver lost control of the vehicle, and it plunged into the shallow end of the pond. Both were not injured.
