KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 13 -- Police are tracking down a lorry driver involved in a two-vehicle collision at the Taman Mutiara traffic light junction along the AMJ Highway in Melaka, which claimed the life of a motorcyclist and left his pillion rider injured in the early hours of this morning.

Alor Gajah district police chief Superintendent Ahmad Abu Bakar said the incident occurred at about 4.30am and involved a Yamaha 135LC motorcycle and a lorry, the type of which has yet to be identified.

According to him, the motorcyclist - a 19-year-old local man who worked as a food shop assistant - was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining severe head injuries.

"The pillion rider, a 19-year-old local woman who is unemployed, suffered a fract...