{
  "id": 18515038,
  "title": "Retired cop and wife killed as car collides with motorcycles",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/retired-cop-and-wife-killed-as-car-collides-with-motorcycles",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-06T14:01:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/11/06/retired-cop-and-wife-killed-as-car-collides-with-motorcycles"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "A car merging into traffic from the emergency lane collided with two motorcycles, throwing the couple into the right lane.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}