Woman who drove automobile earlier than lethal Tanjong Pagar crash to plead responsible to harmful driving

SINGAPORE — A lady linked to the fiery automobile crash that killed 5 males in Tanjong Pagar on Feb 13, 2021, faces a harmful driving price.

Phoo Yi Lin, 26, had pushed the white BMW M4 earlier than alighting from the automobile.

Jonathan Long Junwei, 29, the proprietor of the automobile, then took the wheel.

Long had clocked speeds of as a lot as 182km/h shortly earlier than the automobile ploughed into the pillar of a shophouse and burst into flames at spherical 5.40am that day.

Long and his 4 passengers — Wilson Teo Qi Xiang, 26; Elvin Tan Yong Hao, 28; Eugene Yap Zheng Min, 29; and Gary Wong Hong Chieh, 29 — have been killed inside the crash.

According to courtroom paperwork, Phoo was allegedly driving the automobile in Tanjong Pagar Road at a velocity of 109km/h at spherical 5.35am that day. The velocity prohibit was 50km/h.

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On Thursday (March 16), the Malaysian woman utilized to go away Singapore nevertheless the courtroom rejected her request.

She was charged in early March and is predicted to plead responsible on April 3.

During the coroner’s inquiry into the lads’s deaths, Traffic Police investigator Muhammad Firdaus Suleiman had acknowledged that shortly earlier than the tragedy, Long and his buddies have been at a Chinese New Year gathering in Ang Mo Kio the place that that they had alcoholic drinks.

They then left for Hong Jja Jang restaurant in Tanjong Pagar Road, the place they continued ingesting.

The eatery was run by Park Se-jin, whose age was not talked about in courtroom.

Senior Staff Sergeant Firdaus added that witnesses acknowledged Long then confirmed his new BMW to his buddies.

The group took activates the wheel, each driving as quickly as throughout the Tanjong Pagar house.

Yap, who was later found to have 119mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, was the first to drive. He drove it from the restaurant in route of Keppel, and made a U-turn on Enggor Street.

After that, he drove alongside Tanjong Pagar Road in route of Maxwell Road earlier than stopping shut to the eatery.

Yap had pushed the automobile at speeds of between 77km/h and 88km/h.

Park then drove at speeds of as a lot as 59km/h whereas following the equivalent path.

Phoo allegedly took over after that and as well as adopted the equivalent path.

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Long was the fourth driver, and 4 of his buddies — Teo, Tan, Yap and Wong — joined him inside the automobile, which had designated seats for underneath the driving pressure and three passengers.

Long was speeding in Tanjong Pagar Road when the automobile skidded and mounted a kerb. The automobile’s airbags didn’t deploy inside the accident, which killed all 5 males.

Long’s fiancee, former air stewardess Raybe Oh Siew Huey, then 26, tried to help them nevertheless was badly burned.

She spent 4 months in Singapore General Hospital and needed plenty of reconstructive surgical operations.

Senior Staff Sgt Firdaus had earlier testified that Long, Yap and Tan died of maximum burns.

Teo died of maximum burns and a spinal hurt, whereas Wong died of maximum burns and pelvic accidents.

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This article was first printed in The Straits Times. Permission required for duplicate.