Each time, traffic slows down on the North-South Expressway (NSE) as well as other expressways, either due to lane closure, vehicles changing lanes due to heavy vehicles crawling up a slope, many irresponsible drivers use the emergency lane only to cut into the main traffic lanes later, causing traffic to be severely congested.

Just last Sunday evening, while traveling back from Melaka to Petaling Jaya for a weekend trip, I spotted many vehicles, heavy ones included using the emergency lane along the stretch between Pedas-Linggi and Senawang on the NSE. It is due to the closure of one of the two lanes at one point, and impatient drivers started to use the emergency lane and the yet-to-be-opened third lane, resulting in vehicles from 4 lanes squeezing into one lane which caused a traffic congestion of several kilometres.

Here are some photographs of the culprits.

The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: The “High Court” scam claimed another victim.

Restaurant manager Tan Lay Pheng, 31, from Cheras lost RM12,000 which she deposited into an account of a “judge.”

Tan said she received a telephone call saying that she had missed “a first court hearing” and must attend the next one.

“I was told to press ‘9′ and a man spoke to me in Mandarin and asked for my name and identity card number because he said I had committed a crime,” she told a press conference called by MCA Public Services and Complaint Department head Datuk Michael Chong.

Five minutes later, a man claiming to be a policeman from Bukit Aman informed her that she was involved in money laundering and passed the line to a so-called lawyer.

The “lawyer” said the police wanted to charge Tan in the High Court because her Maybank and Public Bank accounts had “problems.”

“I denied committing any crime but was willing to co-operate with the court,” Tan said, adding that the “lawyer” then told her to deposit her money in a safer account (belonging to the “judge”) or her accounts would be frozen.

She withdrew all her money from four banks and deposited RM12,000 in an account at Hong Leong Bank.

Tan told her friend about the incident and realised she had been cheated.

“I recalled later that my house was broken into on May 10 and all my personal documents were gone. The robbers could have used my documents for the scam.”

Chong said most of the 60 mobile phone scam cases the bureau received this year involved those who lost their personal documents.

“They believed that the court must have a reason for calling them up,” said Chong.