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Published: Saturday September 29, 2012 MYT 8:42:00 PM

Student dies, two injured in head-on collision


KUANTAN: A form five student was killed when the motorcycle he was riding, collided head-on with a lorry at the 17km Jalan Baru Bentong-Raub early Saturday.

Mohamad Zaidi Ahmad, 17, who sustained head injuries in the 6.44am crash, died on the way to the Bentong Hospital. His friend, Mohd Hafifi Jamaludin, 17, who was riding pillion, and the lorry driver, M. Murugiah, 61, sustained head and body injuries.

They have been warded at the hospital.

Bentong police chief Supt Aziz Salleh said Mohamad Zaidi was a student of the Sultan Ahmad Shah Technical Secondary School in Bentong. - Bernama

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