The Public Transport Users Association (4PAM) said the compensation should only be seen as assistance.

“Prasarana must make it clear, this compensation should not be any kind of settlement which would prejudice the passengers in their legal pursuit,” the association’s president Ajit Johl said in a statement.

“4PAM urges passengers who have been involved in the accident to consult lawyers before taking any offer or signing any documents offered by Prasarana.”

He also said the association’s legal advisors were offering their services to all passengers.

Apart from the RM1,000 compensation, Prasarana chairman Tajuddin Abdul Rahman said that the public transport operator would cover the medical costs of every victim until they are discharged.

Out of the 213 passengers affected in last night’s incident, 64 passengers were sent to Hospital Kuala Lumpur (HKL) for treatment.

Of this number, 21 victims are still in HKL, with six in critical condition and 15 in semi-critical condition. The remaining 43 received outpatient care.

Two LRT trains collided on the Kelana Jaya line last night in an accident that was said to be the worst of its kind since it started operations in 1996.

The transport ministry has since said that human error was to blame for the incident last night.

The driver of the LRT train without passengers, which collided head-on with another train carrying passengers, had driven in the wrong direction.