{"id":30239,"date":"2026-02-21T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30239"},"modified":"2026-02-21T10:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:38:36","slug":"man-arrested-for-letting-unlicensed-driver-who-fled-accident-scene-in-simei-take-the-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30239","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for letting unlicensed driver who fled accident scene in Simei take the wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A <!-- -->21-year-old man<!-- --> was arrested for letting an unlicensed driver take the wheel after a car was believed to have skidded in Simei in the early hours of <!-- -->Feb 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In response to queries, the police said they were alerted to the accident in<!-- --> Simei Street 3 at about 1am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The driver left the scene before the police arrived, and efforts to locate him are under way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A <!-- -->21-year-old female car passenger<!-- --> was assessed for minor injuries and declined to be taken to hospital, said the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For driving or permitting another person to drive a vehicle without a valid driving licence, an offender can be fined <!-- -->up to $10,000, jailed for up to three years, or both<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Earlier in February, the police said they were investigating a 16-year-old girl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/16-year-old-caught-riding-a-deregistered-motorbike-without-valid-driving-licence-under-probe?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">who was caught riding a deregistered motorcycle<\/p>\n<p><\/a> without a valid driving licence <!-- -->on the ECP on Feb 5 .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-arrested-for-letting-unlicensed-driver-who-fled-accident-scene-in-simei-take-the-wheel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 21-year-old man was arrested for letting an unlicensed driver take the wheel after a car was believed to have skidded in Simei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30240,"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-30239","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\/30239","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=30239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}