KUALA LUMPUR, March 10: The survivor of a midnight car crash in Malaysia has awoken in a hospital to learn that his brother drove the other car and died in the freak collision.

Nyew Loong Hooi, 33, was driving his car along a street in Penang state this week when he collided head-on in darkness with another sedan, the New Straits Times said on Saturday. He fell unconscious and awoke on Friday to be told of the tragedy.

His elder brother, Leng Chew, had been driving home at the time.

Malaysia has one of the poorest road-safety records in the region, with risk-taking and poor enforcement among the reasons for the thousands that die each year on its roads.-—Reuters