{"id":14229,"date":"2025-11-24T23:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14229"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:25:45","slug":"msian-registered-toyota-spotted-dropping-off-passengers-in-pasir-ris-reported-to-lta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=14229","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;sian-registered Toyota spotted dropping off passengers in Pasir Ris, reported to LTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Passengers were seen alighting from a white Malaysian-registered vehicle at Block 209 Pasir Ris Street 21, prompting a report to the Land Transport Authority (LTA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">A video of the incident was posted in the Professional PHV Drivers Singapore Facebook group by <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/196663252089618\/posts\/1420785279677403\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jahangir Ibrahim<\/a><\/span> on Nov 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The 50-second clip shows the white Toyota Vellfire, bearing the licence plate JVS57, parked at the foot of an HDB block as a family of three gets out of the car, with one passenger rolling a piece of luggage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">A man in a red button-up shirt and black vest is then seen exiting the car. He appears to hand cash to someone in the group, before helping to close the door and returning to the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The post also included a screenshot of LTA&#8217;s automatic acknowledgement after a report was lodged about an &#8220;illegal ride hail by Malaysia vehicle&#8221;, stating that officers are looking into the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">It is unclear from the screenshot if the report was to do with the vehicle in the video. It&#8217;s also unclear where the video was taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Stomp has reached out to Jahangir Ibrahim for more information.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-[-8px] mt-lg font-primary text-22 font-bold leading-1.5\">Authorities crack down on illegal ride-hailing<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">A <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/transport\/new-online-channel-for-public-to-report-illegal-ride-hailing-services\" target=\"_blank\">new reporting platform was launched on July 20 <\/a><\/span>for members of the public to report suspected illegal ride-hailing services, and submissions will be used by the agency for investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">In an Instagram post, Senior Minister of State for Transport Sun Xueling said LTA has stepped up enforcement actions against foreign-registered vehicles providing such services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Over 2,000 vehicles have been checked and 131 vehicles impounded to date,&#8221; she wrote in a Nov 20 update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Under the Road Traffic Act, offenders may face a <span><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.gov.sg\/content\/dam\/ltagov\/getting_around\/pdf\/FAQs_on_Cross-border_P2P_Services.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">fine of up to $3,000, jailed for up to six months, or both. Their vehicle may also be forfeited.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-[-8px] mt-lg font-primary text-22 font-bold leading-1.5\">Public urges authorities to respond<\/h3>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">In the comments, some netizens said they had witnessed similar cases and called on the authorities to investigate, describing such acts as &#8220;wrong and illegal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;I report five daily,&#8221; one netizen claimed. &#8220;I know of Malaysians doing rides from Ang Mo Kio to Tengah for S$10.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Others defended the drivers, saying they were simply &#8220;making a living&#8221; and providing a &#8220;necessary and convenient service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">One commenter said they had previously been wrongly accused of operating illegal rides when they were merely sending a family member to the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Why make life difficult for others?&#8221; one commenter asked.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-md py-md xl:flex-row xl:items-center\"><span class=\"font-primary text-18 font-semibold leading-1.2 text-black\">Get more of Stomp&#8217;s latest updates by following us on:<\/span><\/div>\n<hr class=\"border-t border-primary-200 mt-xl mb-md\"\/>\n<p>Join the conversation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/trending-now\/malaysian-registered-car-spotted-dropping-passengers-singapore-reported-lta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers were seen alighting from a white Malaysian-registered vehicle at Block 209 Pasir Ris Street 21, prompting a report to the Land Transport Authority (LTA)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}