Johor Bahru South police chief ACP Sulaiman Salleh said investigations had been carried out, and there was no truth to the allegation.

“If the survivors (of the accident) did see it (the woman using her handphone), they should come forward to give their statement to the police,” he told Bernama when contacted here today.

He was asked to comment on claims by some of the survivors that the 22-year-old woman was using her mobile phone while driving.

According to Sulaiman, the woman, an employee of a fish restaurant in Taman Ungku Aminah, was returning from a friend’s house in Taman Pelangi when the incident occurred.

In the 3am incident, eight teenage boys were reportedly killed after being hit by a car driven by the woman, leaving five more with broken legs, two in unstable condition due to brain haemorrhages, and another with head wounds.

The incident was believed to have occurred when the teenagers were cycling towards Dataran Bandaraya Johor Bahru and were blocking part of Jalan Lingkaran Dalam, next to the Mahmoodiah Cemetery.