{
  "id": 2917664,
  "title": "Driver trapped nearly 2 hours after tanker lorry overturns in Selangor",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/driver-trapped-nearly-2-hours-after-tanker-lorry-overturns-in-selangor",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-24T02:09:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "New Straits Times",
    "slug": "new-straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.nst.com.my/news/regional/2026/08/1517516/driver-trapped-nearly-2-hours-after-tanker-lorry-overturns-selangor"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A tanker lorry overturning on a bend in Tanjong Karang, Selangor, led to the driver being trapped for nearly two hours. The incident occurred around midnight when the vehicle skidded off the road and overturned, carrying a load of used black oil. The Selangor Fire and Rescue Department was alerted at 12.58am and dispatched a team of seven personnel and a fire engine to the scene. Firefighters managed to extricate the 30-year-old male driver, who was freed at 2.51am, nearly two hours after the accident.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}