{"id":48135,"date":"2026-04-28T19:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48135"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:59:36","slug":"man-who-fled-police-checks-among-9-caught-allegedly-driving-or-riding-deregistered-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48135","title":{"rendered":"Man who fled police checks among 9 caught allegedly driving or riding deregistered vehicles"},"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 25-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly sped off and drove against the flow of traffic when he was asked to stop for checks in <!-- -->Sembawang in early February<!-- -->. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a statement on April 28, the police said the man was arrested for dangerous driving and driving while disqualified. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">They added that he was also assisting with investigations for using a deregistered vehicle and driving without insurance coverage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He is among nine men, aged between <!-- -->19 and 32<!-- -->, who are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/two-teens-among-three-caught-for-using-deregistered-vehicles-and-other-traffic-offences?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\">investigated for driving or riding deregistered vehicles<\/span><\/a> in January and February, the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">All nine were arrested for a range of traffic offences from Jan 30 to Feb 12 and had their vehicles seized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On Feb 3, Traffic Police (TP) officers signalled for the 25-year-old man to stop his vehicle in Sembawang Drive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He refused to comply with instructions and fled, damaging a police vehicle. The man also ran a red light and made illegal U-turns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In <!-- -->another case<!-- --> on Feb 6, two men, aged 19 and 20, were caught allegedly riding separate laid-up motorcycles along Tampines Street 21, with a 17-year-old male teenager as a pillion rider. A laid-up vehicle is one that cannot be used on the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">TP officers later found the trio boarding a suspected deregistered car during a check. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Preliminary investigations showed that the 20-year-old man had driven the deregistered car and ridden one of the motorcycles, while the 19-year-old man and the teenager had ridden the other motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The two men were arrested for driving without a valid licence. The 17-year-old teenager is being investigated for driving a motor vehicle while below 18 years of age. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In another incident on Jan 30, TP officers caught a 20-year-old man driving a suspected deregistered car without a valid driving licence in<!-- --> <!-- -->Hougang Street 52. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Further investigations revealed that he had another deregistered car, which was being driven by a 24-year-old man who also did not have a valid licence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Both men were arrested for driving without valid licences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police urged people to report any suspected cases of deregistered vehicles or unlicensed drivers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cDeregistered vehicles present serious dangers to all road users as they lack insurance coverage and may not meet safety standards. When operated by unlicensed or underage drivers, these risks are magnified considerably,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-who-fled-police-checks-among-9-caught-allegedly-driving-or-riding-deregistered-vehicles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 25-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly sped off and drove against the flow of traffic when he was asked to stop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48136,"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-48135","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\/48135","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=48135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}