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Singapore: A police investigation into the death of a 13-year-old girl who fell from a multi-story parking lot in Pasir Ris revealed that she had been driving down a slope inside the building on a friend’s bike that had fixed gears.
The incident occurred earlier this year, on January 8. Her lifeless body was found around 4:00 pm on the ground floor of the parking lot at Blk 526A Pasir Ris Street 51. Subsequently, paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.
On Thursday (Sept. 3), in an investigation into the teen’s death, the state coroner was told that she was new to biking, as she only found out when she was in Primary 6, according to a report from straitstimes.com.
A maid heard a loud noise and then saw the girl motionless at the foot of the parking lot building. The aide immediately called the police and the Singapore Civil Defense Force, according to the Chinese-language Shin Min Daily News.
Assistant Police Superintendent Gabriel Goh said in the investigation that the teenager, along with some classmates, went to the parking lot after school on the day of the fatal accident.
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After watching his friends ride their fixed gear bikes on the sixth and seventh floors of the building, he tried to copy them.
The type of bicycle he was riding did not usually have a handbrake.
ASP Goh added that one of her friends, who had accompanied her on foot while she was riding the bike, said she had a hard time controlling the bike when she started riding it. But this friend was left behind by the girl as she walked down the ramp from the seventh to the sixth floor of the building.
The friend told the girl to turn right on her descent, but she kept going straight and crashed into the metal railing on the side of the parking lot, and was thrown off the bike.
According to ASP Goh, the impact caused her to be thrown from the parking lot. And although she was able to hold onto the railing for a while, she lost control and fell and died.
The teenager suffered fractures to her skull and ribs, among other injuries.
The assistant superintendent of police said these injuries coincided with those resulting from a fall from a height.
The investigation into the death of the teenager will continue at the end of the month.
At the time of his death, the straitstimes.com He reported that the parking lot where the accident occurred had been frequented by children to play with their bicycles, many of whom were seen by residents of the area in their school uniforms on school days in the afternoon.
She was identified in the Straits Times report as Carlyn Wee, a student at Hai Sing Catholic School and the only child in her family. – / ITGS
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