1990 Kuala Lumpur–Karak Highway crash

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1990 Kuala Lumpur–Karak Highway Crash
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Date28 February 1990
Location Malaysia
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Deaths17

The 1990 Kuala Lumpur–Karak Highway crash was a highway pile-up took place in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia on 28 February 1990. About 17 people were killed when the passenger bus collided with a tanker lorry, FRU riot police vehicles, a lorry, two taxis and six cars at kilometre 30.9 of the Kuala Lumpur–Karak Highway about 5 km from Genting Sempah Tunnel at Selangor–Pahang border. 11 FRU riot police personal were killed too. Many vehicles to and from Kuala Lumpur were trapped in a massive jams for five hours. This was the worst highway disaster in Malaysia since Kuala Lumpur–Karak Highway was opened to traffic in 1979. [1] [2] [3]

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