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SINGAPORE: After completing his swab test at the F1 Pit building, a man refused to comply with a traffic marshal’s instructions on how to get out and instead rode his motorcycle on the man’s foot.
He also cursed another traffic chief because he was unhappy that the exit was too far away.
Sivakumar Sengal Rajan, 51, was fined S $ 3,000 on Tuesday (January 26) on one count of causing harm by reckless act and one count of using abusive words. A third charge was taken into consideration for insulting a traffic chief.
The court heard that Sivakumar went to the F1 Pit Building along Raffles Boulevard for a swab test on the morning of November 8 last year.
After taking the test, he walked to his motorcycle in the parking lot around 9.45am and saw cones and duct tape in front of his vehicle.
Since the area in front of his motorcycle was cordoned off, he was unable to drive the vehicle forward to get out and instead had to back up and make a detour.
A 54-year-old traffic marshal at the scene told Sivakumar to make a small detour and refused to remove the cones and tape when Sivakumar asked him to.
Sivakumar cursed the traffic marshal and inched his motorcycle forward, causing the cones and tape to fall, before rolling his bike over the marshal’s foot.
The quarterback suffered a minor shin injury and did not seek medical attention.
As Sivakumar exited, another traffic officer directed him to the appropriate exit, but Sivakumar was unhappy that the exit was “too far away,” the prosecutor said.
He yelled an expletive at the woman before leaving.
As a mitigation, Sivakumar said he had been stressed that day and was late for work. He had to go do his swab test in a hurry and lost his cool, he said.
He said he works as a security guard and has dependent children and a wife.
For causing harm by reckless act, he could have been jailed for up to a year, fined up to S $ 5,000, or both. For using abusive words, he could have been jailed for up to six months, fined up to S $ 5,000, or both.
