{"id":35486,"date":"2026-03-11T22:24:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35486"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:24:45","slug":"six-motorists-charged-with-dangerous-driving-on-cte-one-allegedly-drove-at-up-to-221kmh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35486","title":{"rendered":"Six motorists charged with dangerous driving on CTE; one allegedly drove at up to 221kmh"},"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 An accident in which a car flipped upside down and crashed led to the arrest of its driver, who had lost control of the vehicle, and five other drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Investigations had revealed that all six men were speeding at the same time, on the same day, at up to more than double the speed limit on the CTE towards the AYE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">They were hauled to court on March 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Lee Jun En Gilviz, 23, Marcus Lau Yong Wei, 35, Sherman Quah Kok Rong, 21, and Goh Jared-Kane, 25, were each handed one charge for dangerous driving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The other two, Damien Chia Hwa Chuan, 29, and Kong Jia Quan, 23, were charged with dangerous driving causing hurt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The accident involving the overturned car occurred along Stamford Road towards Fort Canning Link at about 1.30am on Oct 27, 2024, the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Lee<!-- --> allegedly failed to have a proper control of his vehicle, causing it to overturn and crash into a traffic light post, a traffic sign, as well as trees and bushes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">His car was estimated to have been travelling at up to 144kmh before it overturned along the road where the speed limit is 50kmh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Before the accident, he had allegedly been travelling along the CTE towards the AYE at up to 187kmh, more than double the road\u2019s speed limit of 90kmh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Lee\u2019s accident forced Lau to slow down, causing Chia\u2019s vehicle to hit Lau\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">At the site of the crash, Lau\u2019s car was estimated to have been travelling at up to 104kmh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Around the same time, Kong had failed to keep a proper lookout and allegedly rear-ended Goh\u2019s car. Kong was said to have been travelling at up to 129kmh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Before this accident, Goh was allegedly driving along the CTE towards the AYE at up to 221kmh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Quah was allegedly driving along the same expressway at up to 203kmh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">All six men were subsequently identified and arrested. They were suspended from driving and their vehicles were seized as case exhibits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In its annual statistics release, the Traffic Police (TP) said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/road-traffic-fatalities-hit-10-year-high-in-2025-with-149-dead-elderly-deaths-more-than-double?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\"> the number of speeding violations increased in 2025<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/road-traffic-fatalities-hit-10-year-high-in-2025-with-149-dead-elderly-deaths-more-than-double?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\"> to 253,550 cases<\/p>\n<p><\/a>, from\u00a0201,358\u00a0cases in 2024. That is about 695 people caught speeding daily.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For dangerous driving, an offender can be fined up to $5,000, jailed for up to a year, or both. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">An offender convicted of dangerous driving causing hurt can be fined up to $10,000, jailed for up to two years, or both. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/six-motorists-charged-over-driving-at-nearly-double-the-speed-limit-on-central-expressway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 An accident in which a car flipped upside down and crashed led to the arrest of its driver, who had lost control of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35487,"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-35486","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\/35486","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=35486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}