Retired cop and wife killed as car collides with motorcycles
A car merging into traffic from the emergency lane collided with two motorcycles, throwing the couple into the right lane.
A retired police officer and his wife were killed in a collision on the North-South highway near Sungai Petani today. The incident occurred when a car merging into traffic struck their motorcycle after the couple stopped on the emergency lane to swap drivers and re-enter the traffic lane around 12.15pm. Both the retired officer, Suhaimi Saidin, 64, and his wife, Normah Hashim, 60, were pronounced dead at the scene.
A 36-year-old driver and his 41-year-old passenger in the Perodua Bezza were uninjured. Two youths aged 18 and 15 on another motorcycle sustained serious injuries in the same collision. Earlier, a 43-year-old technician named Mohamad Saifudin Saad was killed when his motorcycle hit the rear of a lorry parked on the emergency lane. The lorry driver, 34, was not harmed.
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