‘We Feel Relieved When They Die’: A Doctor’s Honest Truth About Mat Rempit
They were RXZ convoy riders on the LPT — not urban street racers, but the consequences landed on the same people they always do.
- A surgeon admitted feeling relieved when reckless riders die, as serious fractures consume entire surgical days, pushing other patients back.
- An innocent family, including a child, were struck from behind by the convoy and were wrongly blamed online for the crash.
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Just after midnight on 11 July, a convoy of Yamaha RX-Z riders crashed at KM 246.4 of the East Coast Expressway (LPT 1).
Four riders died, and 20 others were injured.
Dashcam footage, later verified by police, showed the bikes travelling at high speed before the collision.
These weren’t teenagers on back lanes.
They were organised convoy riders on a federal highway — a subculture distinct from classic Mat Rempit, but sharing the same disregard for speed limits, the same modified exhausts, and ultimately, the same consequences.
It was not the first time.
But this time, two people inside the same hospital said what many had been thinking for years.
“I Was on the Fifth Floor, I Could Still Hear Them”
At Hospital Tengku Ampuan Afzan (HTAA) in Kuantan, Iszarizal Ismail was five days into his hospital stay.
He had made peace with ward life — the trolleys, the midnight blood draws, the noise that comes with a Kelas 3 ward.
What broke him wasn’t the illness.
Past 1 am, modified exhausts from motorcycle groups outside were loud enough to reach him on the fifth floor.
Pop-bang, like cannons, he said; five days without proper sleep, and this was what kept him awake.
Ko bayangkan aku di tingkat 5 masih boleh terkejut dgn bunyi enjin dan ekzos diorg ni.
His ask was simple: go race somewhere far from the hospital, far from people’s homes.
“When They Die, We Feel a Little Relieved”
Surgeon Dr Ahmad Mahyuddin Mohamed had been watching this pattern for years, and after the LPT crash, he posted a warning that went far beyond road safety.
One rider with multiple fractures, he explained, consumes an entire surgical day.
Patients already scheduled — people waiting weeks, sometimes months — get pushed back, and they had no say in any of it; the rider did.
“Hari yang sepatutnya boleh buat 3 pesakit terpaksa guna untuk dia seorang sahaja,” he wrote.
Then came the line that stopped people mid-scroll.
Kalau meninggal tu kami seolah-olah lega la sikit.
He apologised for saying it, but he explained it — a fatality is processed and released.
A survivor with serious fractures stays, and the system bends around them, at the direct expense of every other patient already in the queue.
Add obesity, smoking, uncontrolled diabetes — common in the demographic — and surgical risk compounds further.
He didn’t retract it.
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The Car They Hit
The human cost didn’t stay inside the hospital.
The Toyota Vios on the LPT that night was carrying Muhammad Irfan Aziz and his family home from visiting a stage-four cancer patient.
He was driving normally when he heard a loud noise — then felt a violent smash from behind; a 13-year-old was in the car.
He pulled into the emergency lane, and only later did he learn that four motorcyclists had died further back in the pileup.
What followed made a bad night worse; rumours spread online that his car had broken down on the highway, that he had stopped dangerously, that his family was at fault.
A video of his sister shouting at the scene went viral; commenters called her heartless.
She had been injured in the crash and was waiting in pain; they had no idea, in those first moments, that anyone had died.
Muhammad Irfan filed a police report and took to social media to clear his name — a victim forced to defend himself while still processing the trauma.
That detail — an innocent family, a sick relative, a child, and a man who had to prove he did nothing wrong — became the focal point of public anger.
Comment sections filled quickly, not with condolences for the riders, but with fury.
@zulkaflimarang #creatorsearchinsights semoga arwah bersama sama para soleh solehah… insyallau.. #rxz_members_official #terengganu #rxzmalaysia ♬ original sound – zulkafli marang
A Nation That Stopped Feeling Sorry
The reaction was swift and notably unsympathetic — laughing emojis, sarcasm, and pre-emptive mockery of the defence families often deploy: “my child was a good boy, he helped people,” written before any family had even spoken.
Within the Muslim community, religious commentators called it a kematian yang tidak dicemburui — an unenviable death.
Older riders publicly urged the younger generation to drop what they called a “useless hobby.”
Road safety advocates pushed harder, pointing out that Malaysia has no dedicated law regulating convoy sizes, formations, or safety requirements.
Calls grew for legislation, not just enforcement. Police acknowledged the limits of their role, saying that stopping reckless road behaviour requires a shift in societal mindset — not just more roadblocks.
A minority blamed the poor lighting on LPT 1, though critics were quick to counter that darkness is a reason to slow down, not to race.
They Left Behind Families
Farah Aqilah, 30, got the call at 1 am; her husband, Muhammad Hafiz, 33, had sent her a photo of his fried rice dinner before the convoy left.
He left behind a three-month-old son, Muhammad Hud Qays.
Faridah, 39, was told by a friend in the early hours.
Her husband, Che Mohd Sufian, 40, had been slowly restoring his RX-Z since 2024.
He left behind four children.
His eldest, 13-year-old Muhammad Aqiff, publicly vowed to honour his father’s final wish — to excel in his studies and hockey.
They Never Met, They’re All Part of the Same Story
Iszarizal didn’t know about the LPT crash when he wrote his post, Dr Mahyuddin wrote his in direct response to it, and neither referenced the other.
But placed together, they describe the full arc of a single night.
The riders raced on the highway; a family visiting a stage-four cancer patient was struck from behind, and a 13-year-old in the car was injured.
A patient couldn’t sleep in his ward, and a surgeon spent his operating day on fractures that didn’t need to happen.
And at home, two women waited for messages that never came.
Call them Mat Rempit or call them convoy riders; the label is secondary.
@insecuremirul Viral RXZ Member kemalangan di LPT1 ? Nahas 4 maut, lebih 10 cedera ? Salah kereta vios rosak & berhenti di lane kanan ? Video dashcam viral ? Mat rempit menyusahkan orang ? Hobi kami mahal ? Tolong dengar sampai habis ya !!! Al-Fatihah buat arwah & salam takziah buat keluarga mangsa #fyp #viral #lpt1 #accident #rxz ♬ original sound – 4remirul
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