SG: Driver sentenced to jail for 1 month after fatal crash

Mr Sean Liew Cheng was 22 when he was presented with the opportunity of piloting a Spyker C8 Spyder SWB at a private race track. The event was an exclusive invite-only test drive, in which participants had to sign a form which indemnifies Auto Palace against any loss or damage. All was going well for Liew, right up to the point when he found the Dutch supercar in a spin. Mr Liew had been briefed about the car’s capabilities and how he should drive it. The tutorial includes a demonstration lap with instructor Martin Schilte behind the wheel. Despite knowing his own limitations, Liew decided to push so hard and so fast that he ran out of talent. Unluckily for Liew, he was negotiating a series of turns at the time. That sent the car into a wild anti-clockwise spin, before crashing into a kerb and bouncing back onto the tarmac. He will have to pay damages to Auto Palace, luxury vehicle importer and distributor, for driving the car at a speed beyond his abilities and subsequently damaging it. 

A senior teacher in her 50s was involved in a hit and run yesterday when she was leaving her school. The Commonwealth Secondary teacher was walking across a pedestrian crossing at the junction of Pandan Gardens and Jurong Town Hall Road when a lorry making a left turn hit her. The accident, which occurred at around 6.30pm, saw the teacher fracturing her ankle and dislocating her shoulder. She was taken by ambulance to the National University Hospital. The lorry driver fled the scene, but was subsequently stopped by a car driver which witnessed the incident. The lorry driver is assisting with investigations.

In the spirit of celebrating Automobili Lamborghini’s 100 years of innovation in half the time, the 50th Anniversary Asia Drive (50AAD) held from 9 to 13 May 2013 saw passionate supercar enthusiasts taking their racing bulls on an amazing route, covering an estimated 900 kilometers to experience Malaysia like never before.  Designed to coincide with Automobili Lamborghini's 50th Anniversary Grand Tour in Italy, drivers from Lamborghini Club Singapore and Lamborghini Owners Malaysia marked the 50 years milestone with a record-breaking number of 79 Lamborghinis congregating for the 50AAD, setting the record as the ‘Largest Gathering of Lamborghinis in Asia’. The flag-off in the capital of Malaysia was one spectacular procession as the Lamborghini convoy took on the road up-north to Bukit Tinggi, Cameron Highlands, Ipoh, and Penang before it ends off back in Kuala Lumpur.