Malaysian Couple Making Out Causes Five-Car Pileup

A young Muslim couple who tried to speed off when Malaysian police caught them making out in their car got into an accident, and caused a five-car pileup.

It all started as a police patrol car spotted the couple locked in an intimate embrace in their car parked outside a supermarket.

As soon as they saw a patrol car was coming towards them, the couple sped out of the car park onto a main road and collided with a passing car.

The passing car rolled into more traffic which then caused three other vehicles to crash around them.

The couple, both in their 20s, have been detained and the man has been booked for reckless driving.

The traffic police officer Lim Aik Sin also says the couple have been referred to the district's Islamic religious department.

Unmarried Muslim couples found alone together in a private place can be charged for 'khalwat', or 'close proximity', which is a crime under Malaysia's Islamic laws and carries a jail sentence of up to two months.

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