The gash sustained by Hafizuddin as he rode his motorcycle into a wire stretched across his path at the tunnel.

PETALING JAYA, Oct 24 ― A Lebuhraya Shah Alam (Kesas) employee had a near miss when he rode into a wire stretched across the motorcycle lane tunnel, near the Awan Kecil exit on Friday.

An immediate sweep of the 35km stretch of the highway and its motorcycle lanes gave an all clear signal, and the discovery of the wire trap has raised the need for surveillance cameras to be installed at strategic spots.

A Kesas Sdn Bhd spokesperson told Malay Mail these were the immediate steps taken to ensure safety of motorists and motorcyclists.

“We ran a check along the highway, including motorcycle lanes and exits and fortunately found no other similar traps set up,” he said.

He said this was the first such incident reported.

“A move to install closed circuit televisions (CCTV) was already in the pipeline, but this incident highlights the immediate need for them,” he said.

Brickfields police chief Assistant Commissioner Sharul Othman Mansor said police were investigating the incident as a case of mischief which could have caused obstruction to traffic, until more leads are found.

“As of now we cannot establish if the trap was set up for anything more sinister than a case of mischief,” he said.

The incident went viral after the Kesas motorcycle patrolman identified only as Hafizuddin sustained a gash on the neck when he struck the wire stretched across at the exit of the tunnel at Km49.7 eastbound just before dawn on Friday.

Soon after the incident, a police report was lodged and the victim taken to hospital.

The Lebuh Raya Shah Alam serves as a major inter-urban expressway connecting industrial and residential areas within the Klang Valley covering Kuala Lumpur, Cheras, Petaling Jaya, Subang Jaya, Shah Alam and Klang, ending at the access road to Westport.

It’s a well lit six-lane highway which stretches from the Sri Petaling inter-change in Kuala Lumpur to the Pandamaran inter-change in Klang and is managed by Kesas Sdn Bhd.

