A police report has been lodged by a passenger who claimed that the driver of the bus he was travelling in punched him in the face after reporting him for falling asleep behind the wheel.

Thomas Fann, 56, was on an express bus travelling from Terminal Bersepadu Selatan (TBS) in Kuala Lumpur to Johor Bahru on Sunday, when the bus driver stopped in the middle of the road near the Seremban bus terminal.

"The bus earlier made a stopover at Seremban to pick up passengers, and continued southwards towards the Seremban toll plaza when I realised we were not moving.

"Just a few minutes prior to this, we were stuck in a traffic jam. But after that when I looked out of the window, I noticed cars were driving past and horning at us.

"I went to the front of the bus to check on what happened. I saw the driver slumped over the steering wheel," Fann said when contacted by Malaysiakini...