Driver surrenders at police station after fatal accident


MELAKA: Police have arrested the driver of a four-wheel drive (4WD) after he surrendered himself at the Melaka Tengah police headquarters at 12.50pm, Saturday some 13 hours after a fatal hit-and-run incident where he did not stop to render assistance to two motorcyclists.

In Friday's (April 25) accident, the 50-year-old suspect was driving his Mitsubishi Triton, which rear-ended a motorcycle, fatally wounding the pillion rider at the traffic lights on the Alor Gajah-Melaka Tengah-Jasin Highway (Lebuh AMJ) at Balai Panjang here, said Melaka Tengah police chief ACP Christopher Patit.

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