In a heroic effort, volunteers from the Sabah Four Wheel Drive Association and Sabah fire and rescue department have successfully recovered the battered Perodua Myvi wreckage which washed away in a storm a couple of days ago.
The recovery effort required the use of some battle-hardened and highly modified recovery and competition vehicles, usually seen during the annual Borneo Rainforest Challenge to pull the battered Myvi from the muddy riverbanks where it was beached after the storm.
In the early stages of the video, we see a hefty Toyota Land Cruiser BJ40 and another 4x4 vehicle hooked onto the Myvi’s roof section to winch it out of the mud’s grasp.
Once free, recovery vehicles were noticeably repositioned and a combination of winching and pure brute force from another 4x4 vehicle driving in reverse to pull the wreckage to a safer section of the river.
After hauling the wreckage onto hard ground, the extent of the Myvi’s damage becomes painfully clear.
The massive forces of the storm surge likely would have tossed and rolled the vehicle against hard rocks and other obstacles, evident by the caving in of the roofs section and major body panels ripped completely off the vehicle’s frame.
The loss of life and extent of damage from this incident should be reminder to all drivers about the dangers of driving through rising/fast-moving water or floods as it can be very unpredictable and immensely powerful.
Arvind can't remember a time when he didn't wheel around a HotWheels car. This love evolved into an interest in Tamiya and RC cars and finally the real deal 1:1 scale stuff. Passion finally lead to formal training in Mechanical Engineering. Instead of the bigger picture, he obsesses with the final drive ratio and spring rates of cars and spends the weekends wondering why a Perodua Myvi is so fast.
