‘End of the road’ for victim of road bullies

KUALA TERENGGANU: Road bullies have left a 26-year-old badly bruised and too traumatised to ever drive again.

A trainee teacher, who wished to be known only as Muhamad, was bashed up by a group of men after an accident in Tepoh, near here, on Thursday evening.

He now fears for his life.

“I am very afraid,” Muhamad said at the teachers’ quarters in Batu Rakit, here, yesterday.

“They are aggressive and violent. If not for the prompt intervention of some police officers, they could have beaten me to death,” said Muhamad, who is undergoing practical training at a primary school in Batu Rakit.

Muhamad said he was driving to school at about 7.55pm when the mishap occurred.

“While negotiating a corner at a dark T-junction, I heard a loud bang at the rear of my car,” he recalled.

“When I went to check, I was shocked to see a youth bleeding profusely,” he said.

Muhamad said he went to the motorcyclist’s aid. “But his friends blamed me for the accident.”

While some friends rushed the injured youth to a clinic nearby, a few more emerged on several motorcycles and surrounded the trainee teacher.

“They began assaulting me with clubs,” he said.

Fortunately, police officers from the Tepoh station arrived at the scene and saved him from his ordeal. He said they took him to the Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital where he received outpatient treatment for bruises on his face.

“I dread to think what might have happened to me if not for the police,” said Muhamad. “And I am now scared to drive.”

Police have apprehended a few suspects in connection with the incident.