{"id":45248,"date":"2026-04-17T20:08:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45248"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:08:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:08:44","slug":"cyclist-death-new-ubin-group-co-founder-gets-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45248","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist death: New Ubin Group co-founder gets jail"},"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 The co-founder of food and beverage firm New Ubin Group was sentenced to 10 months and two weeks in jail on April 17 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/new-ubin-group-co-founder-did-not-wear-glasses-while-driving-killed-cyclist-in-bukit-batok-accident?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">he ran a red light while driving his car<\/span><\/a> and fatally struck a cyclist in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Pang Seng Meng, 70, was also disqualified from holding or obtaining all classes of driving licences for a period of eight years from his release date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In November 2025, he pleaded guilty to causing the death of Myanmar national Chit Oo Maung by driving without due care and attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In earlier proceedings, the court heard that the accident happened at 9.15am on March 2, 2022, at the cross junction between Bukit Batok East Avenue 2 and Avenue 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Pang did not stop at the red light and collided with Mr Chit Oo Maung, 41, who was cycling across the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The younger man\u00a0was flung off his bicycle. He was rushed to National University Hospital unconscious, with skull fractures and bleeding in his brain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He died at around 5pm that day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The court heard in November 2025 that Pang was suffering from glaucoma, myopia and astigmatism at the time of the accident, but was not wearing his glasses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He told the Traffic Police on the day of the accident that he believed that had he worn his glasses, he could have spotted the red light, as well as the cyclist, and avoided the accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Pang was represented by lawyers Stephania Wong and Yusfiyanto Yatiman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On April 17, the defence said that he was not seriously short-sighted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Pang\u2019s bail has been set at $15,000. He is expected to begin serving his sentence on June 10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/new-ubin-group-co-founder-who-ran-a-red-light-and-fatally-struck-cyclist-gets-over-10-months-jail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 The co-founder of food and beverage firm New Ubin Group was sentenced to 10 months and two weeks in jail on April 17&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45249,"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-45248","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\/45248","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=45248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}