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SINGAPORE – A Malaysian family was unable to attend court due to Covid-19 travel restrictions to hear what happened to a family member who died in an accident last year.
A friend of the family of carpenter Heng Lay Peng, Mr. Tan Hock Choon, was there on Wednesday (September 23), while the investigation officer of the Traffic Police Mohamed Yazid Mohamed Yusoff recounted the tragic events that unfolded on the 16 December 2019.
At approximately 8:45 a.m., the Malaysian was riding his motorcycle down the Seletar Highway (SLE) towards the Bukit Timah Highway (BKE), on his way to work in Sembawang, when the car in front of him abruptly stopped.
Images reproduced in court, taken by in-car cameras from various vehicles, showed Mr. Heng swerving to the left before hitting the left rear of the car.
Then, Mr. Heng was thrown from his motorcycle at least two car lengths into the path of an oncoming trailer, which struck him. The 45-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, according to a coroner’s investigation.
According to an autopsy report, Mr. Heng had “multiple injuries consistent with a motor vehicle collision.”
In December last year, the police had urged the public to stop releasing gory images of the accident.
The court heard that the car that Mr. Heng collided with also struck the back of another car. The accident occurred near the Upper Thomson exit.
Mechanical inspections of the trailer, Mr. Heng’s motorcycle, and the car in front of his motorcycle, found no evidence to suggest that the vehicles were defective.
Reading a message on behalf of Mr. Heng’s family, Tan said that his friend was a good man and son, and a law-abiding foreign worker who had spent 20 years working in Singapore.
State Coroner Kamala Ponnampalam said she will deliver her findings Thursday.
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