Man pleads guilty to driving at speeds of up to 221kmh during group joyride

He was allegedly followed closely by Kong and Lee.

Goh approached another vehicle that was making a right turn into Queen Street from Stamford Road and braked to avoid a collision.

The abrupt stop allegedly caused Kong’s car to rear-end Goh’s car. Lee swerved sharply to the right to avoid another collision, mounting the grass verge before his vehicle overturned.

Debris from the collision flew across the road and Lau braked, causing the vehicle behind to rear-end his car.

Goh sought medical treatment for ailments including an acute neck sprain, a headache and an acute stress reaction.

He was discharged with medical leave but later returned as he still suffered pain.

Goh was found to have driven at speeds of up to 221kmh along the CTE, where the limit was 90kmh. At the upper end of the prosecution’s stated speed range, he would have been driving at more than double the limit.

In total, he sped across seven locations from the CTE to Stamford Road, said Assistant Public Prosecutor Chye Jer Yuan.

The most egregious was at Stamford Road and Victoria Street, where Goh entered the lane at 89kmh to 109kmh in a 50kmh zone, he said.

Mr Chye sought three-and-a-half to five months’ jail for Goh, along with three to four years’ disqualification from driving.

He said the dangerous and reckless driving was sustained rather than momentary with a prolonged course of dangerous and reckless conduct.

He said Goh demonstrated a “wholesale disregard for traffic rules”, driving at speeds approaching or double the speed limits.

The potential for serious harm to other road users was very high, given the speeds involved, and his driving injured himself and his front passenger, a 22-year-old woman.

Defence lawyer Foo Cheow Ming asked for the case to be adjourned, explaining with an apology that he had prepared the mitigation in response to an earlier version of the statement of facts.

He described it as a “fiasco” that was “entirely my fault”.

Goh entered the court building in a yellow top, changed to a white top in the dock and changed again to a black top when he left the building.