Goldstar Express said it would arrange for all the expenses in transporting victims in the accident.

“Our company will manage and handle all the deceased first before attending to the injured victims including their insurance and the delivery of the remains of the deceased victims.

“We are also prepared to offer whatever cooperation to assist the next of kin and victims of the tragedy,” said its southern region chief supervisor, Steven Chong at the grounds of the Sultanah Fatimah Specialist Hospital, here today.

Chong said the bus from Johor Bahru to Kuala Lumpur should have left Larkin Bus Terminal at 12.30am but was delayed by an hour due to traffic congestion.

Chong said the company was gathering full details of all the victims involved for further action.

He said the bus driver, Zakeer Zubir, 32, who also died in the accident, had just joined the company more than a month ago.

“We had just received information that the driver had also brought along his wife and daughter on the bus. His daughter was killed while the wife was injured,” he said.

He added that the accident was the first in the company’s 30 years of operation.

The express bus crashed into a 10m ravine before hitting the concrete wall of the tunnel at Kampung Jayo, near the Pagoh rest and service area.

Fourteen people died in the accident while 16 others were injured including six Singapore and two Myanmar nationals.