Nissan GTR 35 demolished

Four young lives were lost when two sports cars were totally demolished after they skidded and hit two trees.

The crashes involving two Nissan GTR 35 cars occurred at about 4am, it was said that both of the drivers were speeding along the Jalan Haji Ahmad Satu stretch here when the road was wet after a heavy downfall.

The driver of the first car was identified as Tan Kah Yong, 34, a businessman from Klang while a woman from China, Bao Shanshan, 27, was his front passenger. Firemen had to extricate their bodies from the badly-mangled vehicle.

Relatives of the deceased inspecting one of the damaged cars at the traffic police station in Kuantan. Two other women passengers, Wei Litong and Zhang Hongmei, also from China, have been warded at the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital with serious injuries. All three women apparently worked at a karaoke outlet here.

Also killed were the driver of the second car, businessman Go Haw Wei, 20, from Alor Akar, and car salesman Koay Khor Liang, 21, from Bukit Sekilau. Go died immediately on the scene while Koay succumbed to his injuries with his elder brother by his side moments after being brought to the hospital.

Firemen had earlier taken 40 minutes to extricate Koay from the wreck. Visibly shaken and traumatised, he stuttered: “I saw him ... barely able to talk and in great pain.

“I knew then that he might not make it. But I had to put on a brave front as I tried to assure him that everything was going to be all right when the firemen were cutting him free.”

It is learnt that Go runs a family-owned business and had just bought his car about two weeks ago.