One killed, six injured in two-vehicle collision in Port Dickson

PORT DICKSON: A man was killed and six teenagers were injured in a collision between a Honda Civic and a Toyota Unser at Kilometre 13.8 Jalan Seremban-Port Dickson near the intersection at Kampung Batu 7 Sungai Sendayan yesterday.

Port Dickson deputy police chief DSP Muhamad Mustafah Hussin said the crash, which occurred at 10.40 pm, killed Phoon Swee Long, 41, who was at the wheel of the Honda Civic car. He died on the spot.

He said four of the six teenagers, all of them aged 19, suffered serious head and body injuries, while the other two were slightly injured on the leg.

Phoon was from Seremban and heading towards Port Dickson when he was believed to have lost control of the wheel and veered into the path of an oncoming vehicle and crashed into the Toyota Unser, he said in a statement today.

He said Phoon’s body was sent to the Port Dickson Hospital for post-mortem.

As for the injured, he said, some of them were sent to Port Dickson Hospital.

On the teenagers, he said, they were on their way to Rembau to climb Gunung Datuk.

They were then sent to the Port Dickson Hospital and the others to Tuanku Jaafar Hospital in Seremban for treatment.

-- BERNAMA