A woman who drove at excessive speeds in Tanjong Pagar, shortly before the car was involved in a fiery crash, has been fined $5,000 and disqualified from driving in Singapore for three years.
Footage from the in-vehicle camera of a nearby taxi showed that the BMW’s average speed was between 125kmh and 181kmh when it was travelling towards Keppel Road.On Monday, District Judge Salina Ishak noted that Phoo had consumed alcohol before she drove the car that morning.Minutes later, at around 5.40am, the owner of the car, Mr Jonathan Long Junwei, took the wheel with four passengers. The car crashed into a shophouse pillar and burst into flames. Everyone in the car died.
“ informed investigators that at some point, Mr Long said he ‘intended to show them how to drive the car’ and that the group all wanted to test-drive the car. He then drove along Tanjong Pagar Road towards Maxwell Road before stopping near the eatery. He drove at speeds of between 75kmh and 88kmh. Mr Long’s fiancee, former air stewardess Raybe Oh Siew Huey, then 26, tried to help them and was badly burned.During the coroner’s inquiry, Traffic Police investigator Muhammad Firdaus Suleiman testified that Mr Long, Mr Yap and Mr Tan died of severe burns.
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