Wai Ling Yee, 39-years-old, pleaded guilty to one count of causing death by a negligent act and was sentenced on 23 July to a fine of $7,000 and a driving ban of 4 years.
She had failed to notice a drunk man lying on the road and drove over him, killing him.
The victim, Hariharan Anoshun, 24-years-old, was a mechatronics student at Temasek Polytechnic.
What happened?
Hariharan had alighted from a taxi on 26 September 2019 at around 1am, before proceeding to kneel down in a prostrate position on the side of the road (the first lane) at Jalan Bukit Merah.
Another taxi passed and saw him on the road, so the driver stopped his car about 5m away from him, to block the way and prevent other vehicles from running over him.
The driver then called the police.
Wai was driving her company car at the time, and she sounded her horn at the taxi.
The taxi driver, gestured to her to overtake him, which she did.
She immediately turned left after overtaking and ran over the victim, who was lying on the ground.
But she didn’t realise there was a person under her car, she thought she had hit a pothole.
She then reversed her car over the victim, and tried to drive forward again.
A passerby signalled to her that there was something under her car, and that was when she stopped.
The victim had to be extricated out and taken to SGH, where he later died from multiple injuries from the accident.
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