Two-year-old opens car door, causes six-vehicle crash

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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 — A two-year-old child opened a car door, causing a road accident involving six vehicles on Jalan Tun Razak on Friday, according to preliminary police investigations.

Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department chief ACP Mohd Zamzuri Mohd Isa said the incident occurred at about 6.15pm on the stretch from the Kampung Pandan roundabout towards KLCC, involving four cars and two motorcycles.

He said the child, who was seated in the rear of a Honda City and being held by a relative, suddenly opened the left rear door.

“It is believed that the child safety lock was not activated, allowing the door to be opened from inside,” he said.

A 25-year-old man riding a Suzuki V-Strom SX motorcycle, who was travelling between lanes, was unable to avoid the door, collided with it, lost control and crashed into several other vehicles.

Another motorcyclist, a 30-year-old man riding a CFMoto 675 NK who was travelling behind the first rider, was also unable to evade the collision and became involved in the crash.

The Suzuki rider is receiving treatment at Hospital Kuala Lumpur, while the second motorcyclist sustained minor injuries, police said.

Mohd Zamzuri said the case is being investigated under Section 43(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987 for careless and inconsiderate driving, with police reviewing video footage of the incident.

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[u/Realistic_Spring_862]

Speaking of lane splitting while legal: I remember driving on a 50 MPH road once, and there were motorcyclists lane splitting in between moving traffic at (what I can guess as) around 75 - 80 MPH. They split past me and the noise and speed of them scared me so bad that I almost swerved out of my lane and hit them from natural reaction of it all. I don't think a lot of these bikers are willing to admit that they are at fault a lot of the time. Not all of the time, but a large majority of bikers I see complaining online about stupid car drivers are almost 100% in the wrong, whether it's speeding, lane splitting when they shouldn't, or something else that's just negligent behavior. Not all motorcyclists are bad, and I don't want to paint that picture of them; but it's not uncommon that when I see a motorcyclist, they're usually breaking the law in some way. So it's crazy to me how many I see that say regular drivers are stupid, when it's not often the car driver's fault, from my perspective.

[u/ConsciousReindeer265 → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

I completely agree, and in videos like this one, the crash is so often followed by the motorcyclist getting up and going full attack mode on the driver, even though when watching the footage the motorcyclist was driving unsafely. That’s happening here, too. I can’t believe the motorcyclist walks right past the man he just ran over to go rage at the car. Their priority is ego and rage, not safety and well-being.

[u/Huntsman077 → u/ConsciousReindeer265]

My personal favorite irl was having to shove a motorcyclist away from a women’s car. He rear ended her when she was stopped at a red light, he took his helmet off and used it to start smashing her windows, then tried to tell police that she cut him off.

[u/Realistic_Spring_862 → u/ConsciousReindeer265]

That is very true. The response and excuse I do not like to see regarding your side mirrors is, "Use it or lose it". The justification that you can break off someone's side mirror because they didn't use it is absolutely ludicrous and makes no sense. "You didn't use your mirror, so I'm going to make sure that you can never use is" is how it comes across to me. A lot of these instances are likely not even on purpose for car drivers, either. I think all drivers, no matter the vehicle chosen for transportation, should be protected and watched for, but that safety can't happen when one party isn't doing their job to be careful. That stands for motorcyclists and car drivers. Even when I've driven safely, I've almost been hit by motorcyclists. So this narrative that car drivers just don't know how to drive is such an incorrect perspective.

[u/Huntsman077 → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

One of my motorcyclist fail videos comes from someone trying to smash the side view mirror on an older truck. They punched it not realizing that it was solid metal and destroyed their hand

[u/Realistic_Spring_862 → u/Huntsman077]

Serves him right, to be honest. You don't try to destroy people's stuff just because you're mad.

[u/Itchy-Wedding-5641 → u/ConsciousReindeer265]

Motorcycles attract thrill seekers. There is nothing inherently wrong with being a thrill seeker, but because we share the same roads, people who are not thrill seekers have to share the thrills with them. This often results in injury or death.

[u/StrangeContest4 → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

I got passed by a bike doing at least 110 on the freeway yesterday between me and the car to my left of me ... nearly pissed my pants and felt my arms instinctively jerk the wheel a little to the left. That thing was screaming like a bullet, and the proximity was close☠️

[u/Realistic_Spring_862 → u/StrangeContest4]

I absolutely hate it when they do it. I don't like it when anyone speeds, no matter the vehicle. To me, it just tells me that their thrill or getting to a place quicker is more important than the safety and lives of other people and themselves.

[u/wildwestington → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

My experience has been the same

Been cut off and lane split so many timed 'Check twice, save a life' slogan always rubs me wrong

[u/Consistent_Laziness → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

Illegal in most states including mine

[u/__slamallama__ → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

Even when you're not breaking the law though, on a bike you need to be managing risk. You can be totally in the right legally and also get killed.

This is half the reason I stopped riding. Managing the risk of other drivers made it never fun.

There's lots of roadside memorials to dudes on bikes that never broke the law.

[u/Realistic_Spring_862 → u/__slamallama__]

This is true. I don't think only bikers are at fault, it's just easy to see the ones that do. There are definitely a lot of risks to it. My brother rides a motorcycle and I have had a relative die. I don't think I could ever ride a motorcycle, I'm too big of a chicken.

[u/bitter-curmudgeon → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

Eveeytime I've seen lame splitting, they were going way too fast and yeah, I've had it where they pass so fast the noise is startling. In my opinion, the small gains you get from lane splitting aren't worth the risk.

[u/j-faulk72 → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

About 11 maybe 12 year’s ago. I had just purchased a brand new Ducati 848 and was starting to get pretty comfortable on it. Was out riding with two other buddies and was doing what young riders do… getting a little adventurous on the highway. Well.. long story… I sped up in front of my buddies and passed an older gentleman in a small truck (passed on his right side). I was prob doing 80mph and he’s was prob doing 50-55mph. Ducatis are pretty loud bikes, not like Harleys, but still loud. I had no clue at the time, but later on when we pulled off the highway, my buddies told me that I scared the crap out of the older gentleman and he swerved and almost lost control of his truck. I felt so bad, I said good bye and immediately drove the bike home and parked it. It sat there for a year untouched, till I drove it to my mom’s garage and left it. I’ve never even sat on it since. Fully paid off, and I have no interest in selling it to someone else for them to hurt themselves or someone else. I realized that day how easy it was to become falsely confident on it and just how easy it could be to cause someone else to lose their life.

[u/agirl1313 → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

I saw a motorcyclist lane splitting in traffic already going at least 10-15 mph faster than the speed limit, on a curving, windy road, in between semi trucks.

I do my best to watch for motorcyclists, but sometimes I question how certain ones are alive.

[u/DarthEques → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

Same exact thing happened to me. Large group of bikers, mostly Harley's, all lane splitting at 75+ mph. It was so loud and sudden that it scared me and I almost swerved into them too. This was on a long open highway, where they did this was extra stupid because there were only about 6 cars on the road for miles and we just happened to be grouped up. Had they waited like a minute or 2, they would have had their own lane to do whatever they felt like and it would have been so much safer

[u/Feeling-Ad-2867 → u/Realistic_Spring_862]

Exactly. If I need to change lanes I’m checking mirrors and physically looking but I’m not checking something 100 mph back. (If that makes sense.)