24-year-old Muhammad Adham Ishak, a former delivery driver, was jailed for 6 weeks and disqualified from driving all classes of vehicles for 8 years yesterday (1 June).
He pleaded guilty to one charge of driving without due care and attention under the Road Traffic Act.
He had caused the death of a 55-year-old cyclist by colliding with him in 2020, and the latter succumbed to his injuries at NUH 2 days later.
He is currently out on bail and will start serving his sentence next week.
What happened?
On 18 February 2020 at about 7pm, Adham, who was one week into his job as a delivery driver, had completed a delivery at 531 Jurong West Avenue 1 and was headed to his next delivery location.
He was exiting the car park at Block 537 and was making a right turn onto Jurong West Avenue 1, heading towards Corporation Road.
His van moved into a yellow box in front of the car park exit at the same time as the victim, who was a delivery rider riding his PAB on the 2nd lane of Jurong West Avenue 1, heading towards Jurong East Avenue 1.
The deceased’s wife said that she believes her husband was either going to buy dinner for their son or on his way home at the time of the accident.
Adham then collided with the victim, who fell onto the road from the pavement.
Adham alighted from his van to check on the victim, but he was not responsive, albeit still breathing.
He then reversed his van from the main road after a passer-by told him that his van was blocking traffic on the road.
The victim was then conveyed to NUH and found to be in a comatose state when he was admitted, and underwent emergency surgery to remove a piece of his skull because of a head injury.
He later died 2 days after the accident.