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A day on the road in the big city

From traffic jams and running red lights to accidents and even more traffic jams, driving in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur can be a hazardous experience.

Djohan Shahrin
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Each day, hundreds of thousands of drivers make their way through the capital city of Kuala Lumpur with an estimated five million active road users in the Klang Valley including motorcyclists.
Each day, hundreds of thousands of drivers make their way through the capital city of Kuala Lumpur with an estimated five million active road users in the Klang Valley including motorcyclists.
Drivers from Maluri in Cheras inch their way through the Loke Yew toll booth as a handful of vehicles pass by on the left lane heading to Sungai Besi-Salak South.
Vehicles sit in heavy traffic at a major road in Kuala Lumpur as motorcycles thread their way around them.
Two drivers attempt to change lanes amid slow traffic heading towards KLIA and the National Sports Complex.
Vehicles approaching from Salak South cut across to the exit to Petaling Jaya, causing a bottleneck in traffic.
An aerial view of vehicles, one of which is turning at the last minute to make a U-turn in the opposite direction.
Drivers pass by some of the seemingly never-ending road works in the capital city.
A bus squeezes its way down the middle of two lanes of traffic at Jalan HS Lee.
School bus drivers pull over at the curb at Jalan Syed Putra, taking up two lanes meant for traffic as they wait for school to be dismissed.
A lorry driver talks on his mobile phone as he makes his way through traffic on the Sungai Besi highway.
On another lane, a driver in a car bearing a P or probationary sticker checks his phone.
It is against the law to use a mobile phone while driving, but many drivers do so on a regular basis anyway.
A driver runs a red light at a junction Taman Cahaya, Ampang.
In Jalan Cheras, meanwhile, a food delivery man runs another red light.
Authorities prepare to tow away a car parked at the side of the road.
Personnel from the fire and rescue department extract victims from a three-car pile-up in Jalan Persiaran Bangi.
As evening falls, the traffic jams begin again as office workers make their way home from work.