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  • 3rd Drink Driving Conviction But Rich Shaw Family Scion Gets Away With 8 Weeks Jail And Paltry $10,000 Only

    3rd Drink Driving Conviction But Rich Shaw Family Scion Gets Away With 8 Weeks Jail And Paltry $10,000 Only

    Shaw family scion Howard Shaw was on Thursday (May 25) sentenced to eight weeks’ jail and fined S$10,000 for his third drink driving conviction.

    Shaw, who pleaded guilty to the charge, was also banned from driving for eight years.

    The 46-year-old was charged in February after driving in the early hours of Jan 31 along Whitley Road, with 88 microgrammes of alcohol – more than double the allowed limit.

    The grandson of the Shaw cinemas founder has two previous convictions for drink driving in 1997 and 2006. He was fined S$3,000 and disqualified from driving for two years in the first case, and in the second, he was jailed a week, fined S$8,000 and disqualified from driving for four years.

    Recalcitrant offenders can be jailed up to three years and fined up to S$30,000.

    Shaw, who was previously the Singapore Environment Council’s executive director, was also sentenced to three months’ jail in 2012 for having paid sex with an underage girl.

     

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Brave SCDF Bro Injured In Explosion Of Taxi Blaze Discharged, Recuperating

    Brave SCDF Bro Injured In Explosion Of Taxi Blaze Discharged, Recuperating

    [Vehicle Fire along Commonwealth Ave]

    Thank you for your kind words and concerns for the injured firefighter.

    Each day, SCDF Emergency Responders, like him, brave countless challenges in the line of duty to protect and save lives and property.

    The injured firefighter who sustained minor burns had just been discharged from hospital and is recuperating.

    We wish him a speedy recovery.

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    SCDF was alerted to a vehicle fire along Commonwealth Ave (near the junction with North Buona Vista Road) at about 1415hrs.

    SCDF dispatched 1 Fire Engine, 2 Fire Bikes, 1 Red Rhino and 2 Ambulances to the location. The fire which involved a taxi was extinguished by SCDF using 2 water jets and a Compressed Air Foam backpack.

    During the firefighting operation, an explosion occurred from the burning taxi, injuring 4 persons including an SCDF firefighter. All of them sustained minor injuries and were conveyed to the National University Hospital by SCDF ambulances.

    Preliminary investigations by the SCDF and the Police revealed the likely cause of the explosion was due to the road traffic accident. The investigations by SCDF, Police and LTA are ongoing.

     

    Source: Singapore Civil Defence Force

  • Comfort Taxi Driver Tries To Claim $12,000 Damages For Bumper Scratches, Is This Fraud?

    Comfort Taxi Driver Tries To Claim $12,000 Damages For Bumper Scratches, Is This Fraud?

    Comfort taxi driver claiming absurd amount for insurance claim. Surveyors believed to have profit from the accident claim

    We need to stop all this foul play as my friend kenna the same treatment from comfort taxi ! Where got kenna bang and they claim you so much one siol.

    SGD$12,000 for scratches on the bumper ? Not even a broken headlamp or dent on the bumper. Kenna bang on my door lei. #whyliddat

    Taxi driver still got face to claim medical when he can shout vulgarities like f my Mother and he even want to punch me. This shows clearly he is perfectly fine what. Where got need medical attention when he can be so drama. He tried to call 999 too. ?!? Is this taxi driver on drugs or what? All the actions happening in front of his cool blue Hyundai. #whysostupid #carcam

    Taxi driver also unwilling to cooperate by giving me identification card to take down his particulars. So now he know how I am but I don’t even know who is he. Is he even the rightful hirer ? #winliaolor

    Contact comfort but the CSO mentioned they will try not to agitate the driver in case they return car and join Uber / Grab. LOL

    After which he fled the scene after his speech filled with dirty vugalrities. #liddatcanmeh Just received the attached letter from his lawyer and the damages stated $12,000 siol.

    We need to stop taxi driver from all this foul play ! Making people bang on their rear by jam braking or don’t give way when you want to filter out than they bang you hard. Of course last but not least, how to get $12,000?

    Dawson
    A.S.S. Contributor

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • Trailer Driver Caught On Video Making Illegal U-Turn Near MCE Arrested

    Trailer Driver Caught On Video Making Illegal U-Turn Near MCE Arrested

    The police have arrested a 32-year-old man for the offence of Dangerous Driving.

    Earlier in the morning, the Traffic Police received information that a trailer truck had driven dangerously along East Coast Parkway (ECP) towards MCE, Marina Coastal Expressway, (AYE, Ayer Rajah Expressway).

    The blue and red trailer truck from Rio Logistics was caught on video camera driving against traffic on the ECP near the entrance to MCE.

    A line of cars had to stop while the truck made a U-turn which blocked the entire expressway, a video uploaded on road safety community page Beh Chia Lor showed.

    The police said in a news release on Friday that through follow-up investigations, the identity of the male driver was established and he was arrested.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

     

  • Uber Driver, Saddam Hussein, Jailed, Banned From Driving For Causing Death Of Passenger

    Uber Driver, Saddam Hussein, Jailed, Banned From Driving For Causing Death Of Passenger

    In the first fatality involving an Uber car, a 23-year-old driver was jailed for six weeks and banned from driving for five years yesterday for causing the death of his rear seat passenger and injuring a van driver.

    Saddam Hussein Norazman admitted to causing the death of Ms Goh Pei Ling, 18, and grievously hurting Mr Muhammad Shuib Samat, 22, along Seletar Expressway (SLE) on Sept 25 last year.

    He was ferrying Ms Goh and her then five-month pregnant sister-in-law – Ms Chan Qian Jin, 20 – in the Toyota Vios car at 3.45am when he failed to notice a stationary lorry ahead of him and collided into it. Both women were not wearing seat belts at the time.

    Investigations showed that lorry driver Dhanasikaman Pravin Kumar, 29, had stopped on the left-most lane of the expressway behind Mr Shuib’s van. The vehicles were ferrying eight and four passengers respectively.

    Mr Shuib got out to speak to the Indian national driver over a motor-related incident earlier involving the two vehicles.

    Saddam was driving along the left-most lane when he noticed the lorry from three to five car lengths away. He hit his brakes and tried to switch to the centre lane, but crashed into the back of the lorry, then Mr Shuib, and finally the van. Mr Shuib landed on the front windscreen of the car and suffered a broken left arm.

    Surveillance camera footage showed Saddam’s car hit the lorry about 17 seconds after the vehicle’s hazard lights were turned on. Ms Goh was taken to hospital where she died several hours later.

    Deputy Public Prosecutor Ryan David Lim said there was a significant degree of negligence by Saddam and the degree of harm in this case was high.

    He said Saddam had ample time and distance -about 320m – to avoid a collision.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg