Car was speeding, driver playing with handphone - Victim

“The car was driven fast, and in a split second it just ploughed into all of us gathered in the area.”

A witness to the incident, Muhammad Aiman Sulaiman, 16, who happened to be one of the injured victims of the mishap said they were unable to do anything as the incident happened so fast.

Muhammad Aiman also claimed that he saw the woman driver was using a cell phone prior to the incident.

"There was a car from behind, I felt uneasy as the driver was playing with her mobile phone,” he said.

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Muhammad Aiman added that he was traumatized seeing his best friend Muhammad Firdauz Danish M.Azahar trapped under the car after being hit.

"I immediately called on my friend (Muhammad Firdauz), but it was too late as the car suddenly rammed into everyone.

"Everything happened so fast. I just could not believe it, two of my friends were under the car," he said after the burial ceremony of Muhammad Firdauz at the Kebun Teh Muslim cemetery, here, today.

He said he managed to avoid being hit and would not be cycling again after this.

Muhammad Aiman denied that they were racing that night, saying that all of them had gathered there prior to making their way to Johor Bahru Square.

In the accident at about 3 am, eight teenagers were killed, six others injured while two others critically after being hit by a car driven by a 22-year-old woman on the Inner Ring Road near here.