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SINGAPORE \u2013 A man who allegedly drove in a dangerous manner in Kallang, resulting in a crash which saw two people in a cab hurt, has been charged with a number of offences including driving without a Class 3 licence.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Firdouz Mohamed Akram, 36, is also accused of driving a car while under the influence of methamphetamine or \u201cIce\u201d.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Firdouz was on June 19 handed multiple traffic charges including causing injuries to two people while driving in a dangerous manner, and two charges for possession of weapons.<\/p>\n The court heard that Firdouz had allegedly consumed Ice before he drove a car along Kallang Bahru at around 8am on June 17.<\/p>\n He is said to have failed to keep proper control of the vehicle, which resulted in a collision with a taxi. The 60-year-old cabby and his 43-year-old passenger were hurt in the accident.<\/p>\n According to court documents, the taxi driver complained of chest pains while the passenger felt pain in her tailbone.<\/p>\n Police in a statement on June 18 said that Firdouz abandoned his car after the crash and fled the scene before police\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n \u201cSuspected drugs, drug-related paraphernalia, vaporisers and a knuckleduster were found in the car and seized as case exhibits,\u201d a spokesperson said, adding that officers managed to establish Firdouz\u2019s identity soon after.<\/p>\n He was arrested within five hours of the report.<\/p>\n Police did not indicate where he was caught but court documents showed he allegedly had two knives in his possession in a room at the Village Hotel Katong in Marine Parade Road at around 1pm on June 17.<\/p>\n His case will be mentioned again in court on July 17.<\/p>\n For driving while under the influence of a drug, an offender can be jailed for up to a year, fined up to $10,000, or both.<\/p>\n Those convicted of causing injuries to others while driving in a dangerous manner can be jailed for up to a year and fined between $2,000 and $10,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A man who allegedly drove in a dangerous manner in Kallang, resulting in a crash which saw two people in a cab hurt,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61643,"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-62012","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\/62012","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=62012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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