Seeing parents pinned in the car on video call is what broke us, daughter says after Johor crash

BATU PAHAT, Oct 3 — The daughter of a couple who died in a road crash at Kilometre 72.5 of Jalan Batu Pahat-Mersing yesterday never expected an incident she initially thought was minor to claim her parents’ lives.

Ain Zanariah Mislan, 33, said she received news that her mother, Nor Azilah A Rahman, 49, and father, Mislan Osman, 54, had been killed after their car collided with a lorry while they were returning home from Endau, Mersing, after sending off her grandmother.

She was at work when she received the call at about 5.30pm. Her husband, Mohd Hazerul, 33, then broke the news that her parents had died, while her two younger sisters, who were also in the Hyundai Matrix, were injured.

“At first, I thought it was just a minor accident... my husband tried calling my sister’s mobile phone, but someone else answered and said our parents had been pronounced dead at the scene. The person who answered was a driver right behind their car.

“We also made a video call with the woman we called ‘akak’. What broke our hearts most was seeing our parents pinned inside the car ourselves,” she said at her residence in Kampung Parit Pulai, near here today.

According to Ain Zanariah, her husband said her father had flashed an unusually different smile the morning before the accident, before they left for Mersing at 9.30am.

She added that in the week before the incident, her father had often been seen tidying the house, including sweeping and mowing the lawn, which was out of character for him.

“Over the past week, my late father kept cleaning the compound thoroughly, sweeping the grounds, mowing the lawn, and doing other chores as if he knew many people would come over,” she said.

Fire and Rescue Department personnel at the scene of a fatal crash involving a Hyundai Matrix car and a lorry at Kilometre 72.5 of Jalan Batu Pahat-Mersing in Kluang, Johor on October 2, 2026. — Picture from Facebook/This is Johor

It was reported yesterday that a married couple were killed while their two daughters were severely injured in a collision between a car and a lorry at Kilometre 72.5 of Jalan Batu Pahat-Mersing.

Kluang police chief ACP Bahrin Mohd Noh said the crash involved a lorry driven by a 34-year-old man heading from Kluang towards Kahang and a Hyundai Matrix travelling in the opposite direction.

He said investigations found that the Hyundai Matrix, driven by the 54-year-old local man, was believed to have lost control on the slippery road before veering into the opposite lane and colliding with the lorry. — Bernama