GEORGE TOWN: Police are probing claims that a man, who died in a road crash here yesterday afternoon, had assaulted another man moments before his fatal accident.

K. Vimaleswara, 30, from Solok Kampung Jawa, died after his Suzuki Swift collided with three other vehicles which had stopped at the Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah/ Jalan Tengah traffic light junction yesterday afternoon.