ISKANDAR PUTERI, Aug. 6 -- A woman is believed to have fallen into micro-sleep while driving, causing her car to crash into a motorcycle and drag its rider and pillion along the Nusajaya Expressway yesterday.

Both male victims sustained serious injuries in the 5.55pm incident and were treated in hospital.

Iskandar Puteri police chief Assistant Commissioner M. Kumarasan said the incident involved a grey Perodua Myvi driven by a 22-year-old local woman who had allegedly dozed off behind the wheel.

"The vehicle then veered onto the left lane and crashed into a black Honda Wave 125i motorcycle that was moving in the same direction," he said in a statement today.

Kumarasan said the motorcycle rider, a 20-year-old man, sustained injuries to...