A couple died after their motorcycle skidded and hit a road divider on the North-South Expressway near Kulai on Tuesday afternoon.

KULAI: A husband and wife were killed when the motorcycle they were riding skidded and crashed into a road divider on the North-South Expressway on Tuesday afternoon.

Kulai District Police chief ACP Tan Seng Lee said police received a report of the accident at about 1.40 pm at Km37.4 of the expressway’s southbound lane.

He said initial investigations indicated that the 55-year-old male rider lost control of the motorcycle, causing it to skid and ram into the divider.

“The male rider, aged 55, and the pillion-rider, his 49-year-old wife, died on the spot from severe head injuries,” Tan stated in a press release.

 The Sun Malaysia