PENDANG: The mother of Norazah Azizan, the 29-year-old woman who died in an express bus crash at the North-South Expressway near Bukit Tambun this morning, had no idea that her daughter was on the ill-fated bus.
She only learnt of the tragedy when police came knocking on her door to inform her of the tragedy.
Norazah’s mother, Zainab Jusoh, 55, said her daughter had gone to Kuala Lumpur last Thursday to attend the wedding of a close friend.
However, Norazah did not inform her mother when she would be returning.
As such, Zainab was stunned when policemen came to her house in Kampung Gajah Mati at 11am today to tell her about Norazah’s death.
“She did not tell me that she would be coming home last night. I was shocked when two policemen came to my house to deliver the news,” she said when met today.
Norazah was the sole fatality in the incident, which occurred at KM154 of the NSE. She died at the scene after being sandwiched between collapsed seats in the accident.
The Shamisha Express Bus, which was carrying 27 passengers and two drivers, was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Jitra, Kedah, when the accident occurred at 4.20am.
Six passengers were seriously hurt, while 14 others, including the 40-year-old main driver, suffered minor injuries.
Norazah, a divorcee, has two children, aged 10 and five.
Zainah said Norazah’s elder brother has left for the Seberang Jaya Hospital in Penang to claim her body.
Norazah, the third of six siblings, would be buried at the Kampung Gajah Mati Muslim cemetery later today.
“I am still saddened by the incident but I have to accept this as fate,” she said.