JB trip gone wrong: Driver causes deaths of 2 friends while picking them up in Toa Payoh

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What could've been a getaway for a group of friends turned into a horrific and tragic accident. An elderly man driving his SUV to fetch his friends in Toa Payoh for a road trip to Johor Bahru ended up unintentionally causing their deaths, reported Lianhe Zaobao on Wednesday (Oct 11). The 84-year-old had slowed down his vehicle to pick up...

PHOTO: Lianhe ZaobaoWhat could've been a getaway for a group of friends turned into a horrific and tragic accident.ended up unintentionally causing their deathsThe 84-year-old had slowed down his vehicle to pick up his friends, but one of them tried to open the car door before the driver came to a complete stop.

His friends, 76 and 83 years old, fell at two different locations - the middle of the road and the entrance of a parking lot. A vendor at Toa Payoh Lorong 8 Market & Hawker Centre opposite the accident site told Zaobao that the driver frequented the food centre to drink coffee with his two friends, and that the trio are familiar faces to him.

 

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