Train crash ... A danger waiting to happen

Despite spending millions of ringgit, some of the automatic gates at major railway crossings are not functioning.

KOTA KINABALU: The morning after the train crash outside the Kota Kimabalu International Airport here has provoked fear and anger among city residents, with many saying that “it was an accident just waiting to happen”.

Kota Kinabalu train and tanker collision, fatalities unknown

KOTA KINABALU: A huge explosion ripped through a commuter train with 200 passengers after it collided with a fuel tanker at an "unmanned'' railway crossing near a petrol station in Kepayan here. At least twelve people were seriously injured.

Most passengers scrambled out from the rear driver's compartments as they fled the inferno that spread almost immediately following the impact between the four carriages and the Shell tanker.