Motorcycle accident news
13/04/2007

'Dead' motorbike man found alive

A man who was thought to have been killed in a motorbike accident two years ago has shocked his family by turning up at home alive.

Malaysian Samy Pillai was believed to have been killed in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident in June 2005 when his damaged bike was discovered lying on a deserted road only metres from a body so mangled that it was beyond recognition.

Not surprisingly, authorities assumed the corpse was that of the 50-year-old biker and his wife and nine children were notified of his death.

You can imagine their enormous surprise, therefore, when nearly two years later, he was brought to the family home by a social worker who had found him hobbling around on crutches more than 300km away.

He was said to have been partly paralysed and incapable of speech when discovered staggering aimlessly around a village and so the social worker took him to the local authorities who identified him using his fingerprints.

Exactly what personal injuries the man suffered in the motorbike accident and what he has been doing for the past two years remain a mystery.

Andrew Raju, the social worker who helped to reunite the biker and his family, told a Malaysian newspaper, "I am glad Samy Pillai has been reunited with his family who had all this while thought the unidentified body has been his."