Car ends up in sea after driver falls asleep, fails to engage handbrake

MELAKA: A sleeping driver caused his car to sink into the Straits of Malacca after high tide swept up the vehicle.

Melaka Tengah OCPD Christopher Patit said the 38-year-old foreign driver claimed he forgot to engage the car's handbrake before realising he was in the middle of the sea when he woke up at 5am on Saturday (Oct 28).