Date 28 February 1990 Location Malaysia | Total number of deaths 17 | |
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.
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