05 December 2004, 1909 hours

JOHOR BAHARU, Malaysia : A Singaporean woman died after she lost control of her high-powered motorcycle and crashed into the metal divider at KM23.1 of the Second Link on Saturday night.

Johor Baharu (North) Traffic Police head Chief Inspector Bakri Zainal Abidin said Linda Wee, in her 20s, who worked at a factory in the republic, died on the way to the Kulai Hospital, Bernama news agency reported.

Wee, from Bukit Merah in Singapore, was riding her motorcycle towards Kulai to meet her boyfriend when the accident occurred.

She fell after hitting the divider and was dragged about 200m by the motorcycle, he told Bernama. She sustained serious body injuries and broke her right arm in the 11.30pm accident.

Chief Inspector Bakri said the victim's family had claimed her body. - CNA

If the person wasn't Linda, wasn't my friend, I would have just flipped the news as it didn't strike me at all. Such a short report, yet evoking so much of emotions. To the editor, it seems just ordinary road accident. To ordinary readers, seems just another news. But to family, relatives and friends of Linda, it's heart-wrecking news, with emotions running high...