SINGAPORE: While dropping his colleagues off after their morning cleaning shift, a minibus driver thought all his passengers had alighted and drove off with the rear door still open.
But one of his colleagues, a 72-year-old woman, was still alighting from the vehicle. She fell and hit her head, dying from her injuries hours later in the hospital.
Ang Oon Leng, 61, pleaded guilty on Friday (Jun 19) to causing the woman’s death with his negligence.
Ang worked for IS Service System and was responsible for ferrying colleagues who worked as cleaners for the same company at the start and end of their shifts.
The woman who died worked the morning shift on Mar 5, 2025 and got on the minibus driven by Ang after work.
After stopping to drop his passengers off at the Hillion Mall taxi stand, he saw two of his four passengers walk past the front of the minibus. He glanced briefly at the rear-view mirror and saw no one in the rear passenger seats.Â
Without looking at the rear passenger door, he drove off with the door still open. Since his colleague was still alighting from the minibus, the movement caused her to fall and sustain head injuries, including a skull fracture, the court heard, as CCTV videos of the incident played on screen.
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