Penang Council wants report on billboard crash

21 Sep 2014 / 21:16 H.
    Penang Council wants report on billboard crash
    Cars parked near Krystal Point complex in Bayan Baru were damaged after a billboard fell on the vehicles during bad weather on Friday night. SUNPIX by EDMUND LEE

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) is seeking an explanation from the company of a billboard which fell four storeys from a shophouse on Friday evening.
Council Building Department director Yew Tung Seang said MPPP had requested the consultant engineer of the advertising company for a report.
He said the shophouse complex itself was safe but the council wanted to know what happened to the structure holding up the billboard.
“We want an explanation to find out what happened,” he told theSun today.
Four cars were badly damaged when a 16m by 8m advertising billboard crashed at Taman Sri Nibong here.
No one was killed or injured during the 8pm incident which happened amid strong wind and heavy rain.
This brought to mind a fatal incident in June, 2013 when the lighting arrestor on top of Menara Umno crashed to the ground during a freak storm.
The unprecedented incident left two dead, economy rice seller Lim Chin Aik, 44, and 46-year-old Sulaiman Jahir Hussain, from Devakottai, India, with eight injured.

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