World No.1 Momota may be released from hospital on Wednesday

FILE PHOTO: Badminton - Danisa Denmark Open 2019 - Men's Singles - Odense, Denmark - October 15, 2019. Kento Momota of Japan in action in his match against Wong Wing Ki Vincent of Hong Kong. Ritzau Scanpix/Claus Fisker/via REUTERS

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Badminton world number one Kento Momota could be released from hospital in Malaysia on Wednesday, local media quoted a hospital official as saying, after the Japanese shuttler avoided serious injury in a vehicle collision that left one person dead.

Momota, the world's top-ranked men's singles player, and three others were travelling in a hired van to the airport in Kuala Lumpur on Monday when it crashed into the back of a 30-tonne truck.