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PORT DICKSON, MALAYSIA- A motorcyclist led police on a wild goose chase after he claimed that his pillion rider had fallen into the Sungai Pak Mail river in Lukut, near here, following a collision with a car on Monday night.
A scuba search and rescue team from the Port Dickson Fire and Rescue Department then spent several hours looking for the "pillion rider" in the river only to discover later that there was no second victim as alleged.
In the 10pm incident, a 22-year-old Indonesian man had told police that his friend had fallen into the river after his motorcycle had hit a car along a stretch beside the river.
Passers-by who stopped to help the motorcyclist said that the victim appeared to be in a state of confusion following the collision and kept telling them that his "pillion rider" had fallen into the river.
They then alerted the authorities who immediately mounted a search and rescue operation.
Six personnel and three scuba units conducted a rescue operation at 10.30pm and called it off, two hours later, after being informed by police that there was no pillion rider.
"When he recovered from the shock, the motorcyclist told us that he had been riding alone," said district police chief Superintendent Mazlan Othman.
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