SINGAPORE – A man who crashed his car near his home after consuming alcohol asked his passenger to get him a bottle of alcohol from his apartment.
Court documents stated that Claire Sng Wei Ying returned with a gym shaker bottle containing gin and Samuel Gomes-Lim Jia’En, 35 then drank almost all of its contents.
As a result, a Traffic Police officer could not determine his actual breath alcohol concentration at the time of the accident.
On Dec 15, Sng, 27, was fined $10,000 after she pleaded guilty to performing an act that could obstruct the course of justice. Gomes-Lim’s case is still pending.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Teng Yin Hang told the court that shortly before the accident, the pair had lunch at a Sentosa beach at around 2pm on April 14, 2024, and shared two cans of alcoholic soda, among other things.
The pair left the beach about three hours later and entered the car.
The DPP said that Gomes-Lim was entering his condominium complex in the Dairy Farm area at around 6pm when the vehicle crashed into a pillar.
Gomes-Lim and Sng then exited the car and took a lift to an unspecified floor at the property.
