Man drives into sea near Deepwater Wharf, Butterworth


BUTTERWORTH: A car plunged into the sea near Deepwater Wharf here after the driver lost control of his vehicle at about 6am on Sunday (May 21).

North Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Asri Shafie said that the car's driver was a man in his 30s, and added that he was able to escape the vehicle uninjured by crawling through a window in his car and was then rescued by the wharf's boat crew.

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