Tapah MIC deputy head killed in road crash

 

Police said the car driven by D Sivabalan collided with another vehicle and skidded into a ditch. (Bomba pic)

IPOH: Tapah MIC division deputy chief D Sivabalan was killed in a crash involving two vehicles at Km53 of Jalan Ipoh-Kuala Lumpur, near Tapah, early today.

Tapah district police chief Wan Azharuddin Wan Ismail said Sivabalan, 50, died at the scene in the 12.45am incident.

“The accident is believed to have occurred when the victim, who was driving a Proton Iswara, entered the opposite lane and collided with a Proton Exora driven by a 21-year-old man.

“The car driven by the victim skidded into a ditch on the right side of the road,” he said in a statement here today.

Wan Azharuddin said the victim’s body was taken to Tapah Hospital for a post-mortem.

The driver of the Proton Exora car was uninjured.