SG: Senior teacher hurt after lorry runs over her.

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. 

32 year old engineer Singarayar Cleetruse Geethan, was driving home from work at about 5:45pm on the 20th of June in 2012 when his car mounted a pavement along Woodlands Drive 14 and killed 64-year old Mdm Gwee Ham Siau. The Sri Lankan national, a Singapore Permanent Resident, confessed to causing the death of Mdm Gwee and injuring her daughter-in-law, Ms Hasmidah Ho Bee Keng and her grandson Oh Wei Jie as a result of negligent driving. Mdm Gwee passed away in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital two hours after the accident occured. It is believed that her death may have been caused by the head and chest injuries she had suffered as a result of the crash. Ms Ho had a fractured right foot and her son, who was 7 at the point of the crash, fractured his left leg.

A car that crashed into a Geylang shophouse in the wee hours last Saturday has caused severe damage to a pillar, which left rubble everywhere. The driver, a 28 year old local, escaped with minor injuries to his left arm. However, he is currently facing further questioning after a parang was discovered under the car's back seat. The driver, who works as a designer, denied owning the parang. He claimed he did not know how it got there, and accused someone else for placing it in the car while he was being questioned by the police.