This is indeed another sad day in Malaysia. A helpless college student has been burnt to death in her car after collision with a car and lorry. It's sad that she could have potentially survived if the the Good Samaritan were able to borrow the fire extinguisher at that crucial moment from a nearby petrol station.
The petrol attendant at the petrol station refused to aid the Good Samaritan, worried about his safety over potential robbers. Ya, I don't blame him for his dilemma. Nowadays, robbery and snatch theft cases in KL and Klang Valley are like part of the life. It doesn't discriminate the rich, celebrities or the poor ones. Every year, there's at least 2 or 3 such cases involving someone that I know. Somemore it's early dawn of the day and fear of potential robbery was highly in his mind.
Ironically, I couldn't understand why the management of the petrol station didn't have initiative to install fire extinguishers near the petrol pump. That should be part of the health and safety precaution at all time, should fire breakout at the pumps. If there was a fire extinguisher nearby the pump, the Good Samaritan could just had a few words with the attendant to borrow the fire extinguisher for rescue mission nearby without the attendant opening the door to the kiosk. Too bad, that wasn't the case. The victim might have higher chance to survive.
BP has been centre of condemn lately. Their current failure to resolve the underwater burst pipeline near the coastline of US has damaged the once clean ocean, polluted the beautiful beaches and slaughtered faunas be it birds or fishes. Americans condemn this miserable tragedy. The massive pollution should have been avoided if there is proper engineering maintenance and emergy response plan in place at all time.
In addition to that, difficulty to access fire extinguisher highlights the poor implementation of emergency responce at their petrol stations in Malaysia especially on customers' life. I might be wrong, this station might just be a secluded case but it shouldn't be a excuse. I don't think it's so expensive to install 2 fire extingushers outside near the pumps.
Praise should be given to the Good Samaritan who put in full effort to save the victim although he didn't change the course of the tragedy. Condemnation goes to BHP gas station for another manslaughter and this time a innocent citizen. To Florina RIP and to her family, please accept the deepest condolence from The People's Power.
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Edit on fact: BHP Malaysia (formerly known as BP) is not a subsidary of BP (British Petroleum). Thanks to a reader: http://www.blogger.com/profile/17976598931694667632
3 comments:
BHP belongs to AMNO cronies, Boustead not British Petroleum
Hi mate,
Thanks for correcting the fact. Although BHP was formerly known as as BP, it has got nothing to do with British Petroleum. Thus, I have edited my post to correct the mistakes.
any foreign company do business is need to give amno shares
anyway, some1 told me that late lady wanna to convert to marry melei bf. her mother against that
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