{"id":13700,"date":"2020-02-18T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T10:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=13700"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T04:40:45","slug":"lim-guan-eng-visits-with-family-struck-by-drunk-driving-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/lim-guan-eng-visits-with-family-struck-by-drunk-driving-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lim Guan Eng visits with family struck by drunk driving tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lim-guann-eng.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13705\"\/><figcaption>Source: BERNAMA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng met with the family of Khairizul Mohamad Noor, 39, a father of five, who died in an accident involving a drunk motorist at their family home near Bagan Jermal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the accident, the drunk driver crashed into the Khairizul\u2019s motorcycle at the Bukit Mertajam exit to Perai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khairizul died at the scene while his wife, Zuriana Hasan, 36, was seriously injured and still remains in a coma at the Seberang Jaya Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state government and agencies, the Welfare Department, and the Bagan Parliamentary constituency office has provided financial assistance to the family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lim conveyed his condolences  and presented a RM5,000 donation to the children before he left. The finance minister was deeply saddened by the tragedy and has pledged to continue helping them through this difficult period.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lim told reporters \u201cThe Transport Ministry is looking at doubling the punishments for drink-driving from 10 years\u2019 imprisonment to 20 years, and from a RM20,000 fine to RM100,000 under Section 44(1) of the Road Transport Act 1987.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are about 7,000 road casualties reported every year and Malaysia has one of the highest accident death rates worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family of Khairizul praised the move to impose heavier penalties on drunk drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His father-in-law, Hassan Ismail, 67, said he was glad that the government was looking at doubling the punishments for drink-driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf nothing is done (against drink-driving), I fear the situation will get out of hand. The drunk drivers will be more brazen and such accidents will continue to rise,\u201d said Hassan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng met with the family of Khairizul Mohamad Noor, 39, a father of five, who died in an accident involving a drunk motorist at their family home near Bagan Jermal. In the accident, the drunk driver crashed into the Khairizul\u2019s motorcycle at the Bukit Mertajam exit to Perai. Khairizul died at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13928,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13700\/revisions\/13928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}