Car pooling

SUBANG JAYA: So heavy was the rain yesterday that a taxi driver drove his vehicle into a 1.5m-deep swimming pool at a condominium in Malaysia.
The incident happened at 5pm when the driver in his 30s entered the Vista Millenia condominium in Puchong Perdana to pick up a passenger.

"It was raining heavily when I entered the area. I couldn’t see clearly," said the traumatised taxi driver.

According to the condominium’s security guard, the driver entered a pathway meant for joggers around the swimming pool.

"The sky was so dark that the driver must have thought the pool was a rubber mat.
"When he reached a dead end, he tried to make a U-turn, not realising he was driving into the pool," said the guard.

The driver managed to get out of the car as it was sinking. A tow truck took nearly an hour to pull the taxi out.

The condominium’s residents’ association chairman Chidan Paran said the pathway which the taxi entered was not blocked. "Anyone could have easily mistaken it for a driveway as it is wide enough for a car to pass through," he said.