Kuala Muda police chief Hanyan Ramlan said two youths aged 18 and 15 on another motorcycle were also seriously injured. (Facebook pic)SUNGAI PETANI: A retired policeman and his wife were killed when a car merging into traffic collided with their motorcycle on the North-South highway near here today. Two others on another motorcycle were also injured.
Kuala Muda police chief Hanyan Ramlan said the collision occurred after a couple in a Perodua Bezza stopped on the emergency lane to swap drivers and then re-entered the traffic lane at about 12.15pm.
"The Yamaha motorcycle ridden by Suhaimi Saidin, 64, with his wife, Normah Hashim, 60, as a pillion rider, was thrown into the right lane. Both were pronounced dead at the scene," he said in a statement today.
