Dan banyak kenderaan telah terbabit dalam kemalangan di selekoh tajam ini.
Paling ketara, kebanyakan mangsa yang maut, apabila kenderaan mereka terbabas lalu merempuh tiang jejambat yang menghubungkan bangunan Parlimen ke Jalan Parlimen.
Seingat saya, sejak kira-kira 5 tahun lalu, kira-kira 10 kematian berlaku di sini, apabila kenderaan mereka merempuh tiang jejambat ini.
Terbaru, kira-kira jam 12 malam tadi, sepasang suami isteri, nyaris maut apabila kereta mereka terbabas,Ketika kejadian, jalan licin akibat hujan.
Kereta Proton Waja ini terbabas ke kiri jalan ketika melalui selekoh ini dan terus meluncur ke arah tembok sebelum terbalik.
Kedua-dua mangsa yang terperangkap di dalam kereta, berjaya dikeluarkan kira-kira 15 minit kemudian oleh Anggota Bomba dan Pertahanan Awam
Mangsa dikenali sebagai Shahzan Ahmad - 33 tahun, Pembantu Perubatan di Pusat Perubatan Universiti Malaya PPUM cedera di kepala.
Manakala isterinya yang cedera agak parah, Norazlina Zainal 27 tahun - Jururawat di hospital sama, cedera di tangan.
Dan mungkin kerana mereka memakai talipinggang keledar, maka kedua-duanya tidak tercampak keluar yang mungkin boleh mengakibatkan kecederaan lebih teruk.
Tiga peserta dipilih oleh Perdana Menteri memenangi peraduan foto yang dianjurkannya melalui blog 1 Malaysia bertemakan “Perpaduan Melalui Kepelbagaian”.
Menurut Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak, oeraduan itu dimulakan pada Mac lalu, dan dibuka kepada semua warga negara Malaysia yang berusia antara 18 hingga 23 tahun.
“Peraduan sepanjang sebulan secara dalam talian ini bertemakan "Perpaduan Melalui Kepelbagaian", telah berjaya menerima beberapa ratus penyertaan walaupun dianjurkan dalam tempoh waktu yang agak pendek.
"Saya seronok melihat pelbagai tafsiran tema ini melalui gambar yang dihantar. Terima kasih atas penyertaan anda itu. Sebenar-benarnya, susah bagi saya untuk membuat pilihan kerana terdapat banyak foto yang sangat baik telah dikemukakan, namun tiga penyertaan teratas yang memenangi peraduan ini, pada hemat saya, paling menyerlah dalam menjelaskan semangat 1Malaysia.
"Kepada yang berjaya, tahniah diucapkan. Saya sangat-sangat berharap dapat bertemu anda di majlis penyampaian hadiah pada Rabu ini,” katanya.
Ketiga-tiga pemenang tersebut ialah Noor Diyana Bt Mohmad Apandi, Henry Liew Su Loong dan Md Azrul Syaffiq Bin Md Suhaimi.- 18/5/2009
Its demise was announced by the National Emergency Management Association, the group that represents state emergency managers.The CD insignia, which the association called “a relic from the cold war,” was eulogized by Richard Grefé, the executive director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
The stark insignia of civil defense — a C and D forming a red circle in a white triangle on a blue disk — died yesterday after a long eclipse. It was 67 years old and lived in the mind’s eye of anyone who remembers air-raid drills, fallout shelters and metal drums filled with what had to be the stalest biscuits in the world.
“The old mark fits in the same category of simplicity and impact occupied by the London Underground map,” Mr. Grefé said.
Tom Geismar, a principal in Chermayeff & Geismar Studio, a design firm, said the insignia was “authoritative and appropriate for the serious work” of civil defense.
The insignia was born in 1939, said Michael Bierut, a partner in the Pentagram design firm. Its father was Charles T. Coiner, the art director of the N. W. Ayer advertising agency, who also designed the National Recovery Administration’s blue eagle.
The CD insignia was called anachronistic in 1972 by the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, successor to the Office of Civil Defense. “The image was World War II vintage,” the agency said.
The EM symbol was endorsed by R. David Paulison, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, successor to the civil preparedness agency. He attended the announcement in Washington.
The new image was developed by Morrie Goodman, an emergency communications specialist and the managing director of AGG International, a marketing firm.
Mr. Goodman said he first tried to update the classic triangle, using EM initials, but wound up with something that looked like the America Online logo. He was then directed by the association to take a fresh approach. In it, the letters EM and the words Public Safety and Public Trust are wreathed in blue and gold arcs, symbolizing movement, and three gold stars, standing for the local, state and federal levels of disaster preparedness and response.
“We now have a new symbol of what our profession is all about,” Mr. Goodman said.
Mr. Geismar sounded less sure. He said the stars and swooshes seemed “more appropriate to an upstart airline.”
The CD insignia is survived by countless metal drums, still languishing in school basements, with biscuits that have grown even staler.
“I will now go cry for Charles Coiner,” Mr. Bierut said.
Nama Mangsa: Norwati Mohamad , 39 thn Asal - Bandar Muadzam Shah, Pahang Darul Makmur.
Mangsa tersepit di tempat duduk penumpang, meninggal dunia, seorang lagi anak mangsa, berusia 5 tahun, Afiqah Syafiah, meninggal dunia di Hospital Kuala Lumpur, kira-kira lima jam kemudian.
Anak perempuan usia 14 tahun, cedera parah, tersepit di tempat duduk belakang.
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