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SINGAPORE: A teenager who allegedly drove multiple cars, including his grandmother’s, while underage and uninsured was handed 18 charges on Thursday (May 28).<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old had been arrested after a high-speed police chase<\/a> in which he collided with six vehicles before fleeing on foot.<\/p>\n The teen cannot be named under the Children and Young Persons Act as he was under the age of 18 at the time of the alleged offences.<\/p>\n According to a police statement, the teen was involved in three separate cases of underage driving.<\/p>\n The first was on Jan 30, 2025, when the then-sixteen-year-old allegedly took his grandmother’s car without her knowledge, as the ignition key was in the unlocked vehicle.<\/p>\n He drove for about one hour before returning the vehicle, the police said.<\/p>\n His grandmother called for police assistance after discovering her car missing.<\/p>\n About a year later, on Jan 8 this year, the police discovered that the teen had driven a deregistered vehicle with a false number plate from Haig Road to Marina Bay Sands.<\/p>\n A week later at about 10.50pm on Jan 16, traffic police officers on patrol along Paya Lebar Road began pursuit of the teen when he sped off in a car upon seeing them.<\/p>\n He was 17 when he allegedly drove at high speed during the pursuit, reaching 174kmh on the East Coast Parkway and 96kmh along Guillemard Road.<\/p>\n The speed limits were 90kmh and 40kmh respectively.<\/p>\n The police said he also ran red lights and drove against the flow of traffic.<\/p>\n The teen allegedly collided with five stationary vehicles along Paya Lebar Road and Guillemard Road, eventually stopping after hitting a sixth stationary car at Marine Parade Road and Still Road South.<\/p>\n He got out on foot to flee but was arrested.<\/p>\n The vehicle the teen was driving in this third incident was found to be a deregistered car bearing a false number plate.<\/p>\n A vaporiser and a pod were found in the car, but no further action was taken in this respect as there was insufficient evidence, the police said.<\/p>\n The teen was charged with multiple offences, including dangerous driving causing hurt, driving while underage, using a deregistered vehicle, using a vehicle without insurance coverage and failing to stop after an accident.<\/p>\n He indicated that he would be pleading guilty and was given a date to do so in July.<\/p>\n Of the penalties he faces, the heftiest is for dangerous driving causing hurt – for which he can be jailed for up to two years, fined up to S$10,000, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: A teenager who allegedly drove multiple cars, including his grandmother’s, while underage and uninsured was handed 18 charges on Thursday (May 28). The 18-year-old…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55935,"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-55934","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\/55934","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=55934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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