In a daze, the 65-year-old did not know how he ended up there when he had just boarded the bus.

He looked around and saw the bus in a drain and then he realised what had happened.

A trailer lorry had slammed into the rear of the bus which he had just boarded at a stop near his house.

"It happened in a split second and I was in a daze until I saw my lady's finger plants.

"I was in front of my own house," said Lee, describing what it was like after he had been thrown out of the bus by the impact of the crash.

"I was paying the fare when the accident took place. If I were thrown out when the bus was still moving, I would have died."

He was one of the passengers on a bus carrying some 20 passengers from Kuala Selangor to Klang.

Another passenger, factory worker Mariana Man, 38, was asleep when she was jolted awake by the impact of the collision and the screams of the other passengers.

The bus was picking up passengers at a bus stop in Batu 15, near here, when the lorry slammed into it at high speed, causing it to move 50m forward before ending up in a drain.

The lorry stopped short of falling into the drain, but it tipped on its side.

The driver of the lorry suffered a broken arm and was sent to the hospital, while the bus driver and five passengers escaped with minor injuries.

Lee's daughter, who declined to be identified, said it was not the first time an accident involving a lorry had occurred in front of their house.

"Two years ago, another accident involving two trailer lorries also happened at the same spot. One was parked on the roadside while the driver was having breakfast at a restaurant nearby.

"I'm afraid if nothing is done, this kind of accidents will claim the lives of innocent people one day," she said. -- NST