Driver speeding at 148kmh before fatal Tanjong Pagar crash: Coroner's inquiry

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SINGAPORE - The coroner's inquiry into the deaths of five men killed on Feb 13 last year in a fiery car crash in Tanjong Pagar heard that the driver had hit speeds of up to 148kmh before the accident. The speed limit for Tanjong Pagar Road is 50kmh, Traffic Police investigator, Senior Staff Sergeant Muhammad Firdaus Suleiman, testified on Thursday...

SINGAPORE - The coroner's inquiry into the deaths of five men killed on Feb 13 last year in a fiery car crash in Tanjong Pagar heard that the driver had hit speeds of up to 148kmh before the accident.

He added that an autopsy showed that the driver - Mr Jonathan Long Junwei, 29 - had a reading of 86mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood.Mr Long was driving a white BMW M4 at around 5.40am when it crashed into a shophouse before bursting into flames. His fiancee, former air stewardess Raybe Oh Siew Huey, 26, rushed to the scene to try to help the occupants and was badly burned in the incident.

The Straits Times earlier reported that Ms Oh and the occupants of the car had dined at a nearby Korean eatery before the accident.

 

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