IPOH: A lorry driver transporting concrete slabs was crushed to death after the vehicle skidded on the side of the North-South Expressway, and the blocks falling on him.

       A Fire and Rescue Department spokesman said the 33-year-old driver died when the accident occurred in the wee hours on Tuesday (April 12) on KM 220 of the expressway near Taiping, heading south.

       He said the department received a distress call at 4.43am today.

       “A crane dispatched to the site took about eight minutes to remove the slabs.

       “The victim was declared dead by a medical team on site,” he said.