IPOH: Two people have been killed and three others injured in an accident involving a pick-up truck and two motorcycles at KM96.4 on the Kuala Kangsar-Pengkalan Hulu road near here.
Gerik OCPD Supt Abdul Samad Othman said the accident happened at 2.45pm on Monday (Feb 9).
He said a motorcycle ridden by the deceased with a 38-year-old male rider and a 33-year-old female pillion rider suddenly veered into the opposite lane and crashed head-on into the pick-up truck.
"A second motorcycle ridden by a 37-year-old man with a 37-year-old female pillion rider travelling directly behind the first bike was unable to avoid the truck and skidded into a drain," he said in a statement on Monday (Feb 9).
Supt Abdul Samad said the driver of the pick-up truck, 38, injured his right arm but his passenger, 38, was uninjured.
He said both the rider and pillion rider on the first motorcycle were pronounced dead at the scene.
"The rider of the second bike fractured his right shoulder and the pillion rider fractured her left thigh," he said, adding that the injured were sent to the Gerik Hospital for treatment and the bodies of both deceased were taken to the hospital's forensic unit.
