A Grab passenger who boarded her ride past midnight said she was taken on an hour-long journey in what she described as a “genuinely frightening” experience, with the driver purportedly taking multiple detours and asking her to alight at a deserted bus stop.
The passenger, Rose Anne Apostol-Del Rosario, told Stomp that the incident happened in the early hours of Oct 25.
The 33-year-old childcare teacher was travelling home from Circuit Road to Yishun at the time. Her friend had helped her book a Grab ride, which arrived at around 12.50am.
At first, everything seemed fine. She recounted how the driver was “friendly and talkative” and the pair even chatted and laughed together during the ride.
The driver initially headed towards Lentor Avenue, but encountered a closed road, according to Rosario. She said he then attempted a route along Upper Thomson Road, which was also closed, before heading towards the Seletar Bus Depot located in Yio Chu Kang.
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Driver purportedly takes multiple detours
In a TikTok post about the incident, Rosario recounted that it was already 1.30am by then.
“The night was hazy, cold, and eerily quiet,” she writes, adding that the driver had told her there was “no other way to get to Yishun”.
“Things became frightening when he repeatedly encountered closed roads and said there was no other way to get me home,” she told Stomp. “He even asked whether I had friends nearby whom I could stay with.”
Rosario’s friend, who had booked the Grab ride, noticed through the app that the car had diverted from the planned route and gave her a call.
She then told the driver to take her home. According to her account in the TikTok video, the driver agreed to try another route, but she realised he was heading in the same direction as before.
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