Ferrari crash
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Thank goodness all is well. Anyway to make a report to traffic police?
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News:
LTA have sent people to build new traffic lights at the junction that the Ferrari Crash happened.
Finally! After two months! -
let's hope that area will no longer be known as the dark territory
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hquek:
Thank goodness all is well. Anyway to make a report to traffic police?
[quote]I guess the incident happened so fast that no one took down the car plate number of the lorry ? The driver should be caught for dangerous driving[/quote]Yap it is too SHOCKING that they don't know what is the lorry carplate no. hence never make police report.
Haiz........... -
Ferrari driver was not intoxicated: HSA report
The driver of the Ferrari involved in a horrific crash at the junction of Rochor Road and Victoria Street in May had not consumed alcohol or taken controlled drugs before getting behind the wheel.
Contrary to speculation that the driver, Chinese national Ma Chi, 31, had been drunk, a Health Sciences Authority (HSA) toxicology report showed no detectable traces of intoxicating substances, such as drugs and alcohol.
my paper first got wind of the report findings about two weeks ago and viewed the document from a source yesterday.
On May 12, the Ferrari allegedly beat a red light and crashed into a ComfortDelGro taxi, which then hit a motorcycle at the junction.
Mr Ma, a financial investor from Sichuan, died at the scene, while cabby Cheng Teck Hock, 52, died in hospital along with his Japanese passenger, Ms Shigemi Ito, 41.
Both the motorcyclist and a female passenger in the Ferrari were injured.
The female passenger had earlier been identified in media reports as Ms Wu Wei Wei, a student from Wuhan, China, who is said to be in her 20s.
She was said to have been at a graduation party with her classmates just hours before the crash. It is unclear how she knew Mr Ma.
Mr Ma’s family released a statement to my paper yesterday.
It said: "We are glad that the scientific reports are out and will help in the investigations. We will miss (Mr Ma) very much and we will continue to follow the Singapore laws as to what we should do next.
"It has been a very difficult time for the family to lose a father and husband so suddenly."
Mr Ma’s family is represented by law firm Drew & Napier.
Mr Ma’s wife, Madam He Tingting, 28, who was heavily pregnant at the time of the crash, is said to have given birth to the couple’s second child about two to three weeks ago. They also have a four-year-old daughter.
Less than a week after the crash, Madam He apologised to the families of the taxi driver and his passenger, who were killed by Mr Ma’s "driving error".
In a post on Weibo, a popular website among Chinese nationals, she said that her family "will not ignore the matter", reported Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao.
Sources told my paper that Mr Ma’s family is currently in discussion with AXA Singapore over the issue of insurance coverage following the crash.
Two weeks after the May 12 incident, a Lexus driven by 30-year-old Kelvin Seah Koon Yong allegedly beat a red light and crashed into a taxi at the same junction.
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Even if he was not drunk does it make him any less guilty?
The problem here was the speed at which the vehicle was going and "beating" the red light that caused 2 innocent party to die.
Nobody has the right to take away the life of another human being. Even if you want to die, your body is not yours to kill.
Your mother carried you for how long, your parents looked after you for how long. The first breath of life is a miracle in itself.
Life is to be treasured!!
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I think what AXA trying to do is correct. They should not have paid out those 3rd party claim first. Any one wishes to claim should claim from Ma Chi’s estate. Ma Chi was recklessly driving and so AXA has the right to repudiate the insurance contract. The insurance policy covers normal accidents but not when one is driving it against the law - beating the red light.
It is these kind of drivers that drive up the insurance premium for the rest of the careful drivers in this country.
I sympathise with Ma Chi’s family for their loss but this insurance thingy has to be settled rightfully -
Guess every driver will be watching this. If cannot claim against the reckless party, which usually is the cause of road accidents, then who can other road users such as pedestrian claim against?
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Nebbermind:
Guess every driver will be watching this. If cannot claim against the reckless party, which usually is the cause of road accidents, then who can other road users such as pedestrian claim against?
I think what the insurance company is trying to do is to distinguish this case of blatant speeding from those harder to prove cases. This Ma Chi case with the video evidence if paid out by AXA would set a precedent that EVERY speeding accident case will be payable and is morally wrong in the first place, and will cause insurance premium to spiral upward out of control
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