Sean Chan Wei Lun was sentenced to 18 months probation after stealing his father’s taxi an smashing it into a building which left his friends and himself injured.
Sean stole the keys to his father’s taxi and snuck out of the house at midnight to take his friends for a joyride.
Sean lost control of the taxi when he tried to execute a left turn at the junction of Riverside Road and Marsiling Industrial Estate Road 8. The taxi mounted a kerb, uprooted a stop sign before it came to a stop after slamming into the wall of a nearby building. All three individuals in the car sustained various injuries.
Sean, who is now 16, will also be required to remain indoors from 10pm to 6am for the duration of his probation, perform 100 hours of community service, be placed on an electronic monitoring scheme and undergo psychological or psychiatric treatment.