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SINGAPORE: A man who smoked Kpods, or vaporiser pods containing etomidate, drove dangerously against traffic, narrowly missing two motorcyclists and colliding with another vehicle.<\/p>\n
Ng Bing Hong, 37, was sentenced on Monday (Jun 29) to 15 months’ jail and banned from driving for four years. He was also ordered to pay compensation of S$490.50 (US$379) to the victim.<\/p>\n
This is the second case where an offender was convicted of driving under the influence of etomidate, and the first such case after etomidate was listed as a Class C controlled drug<\/a> under the Misuse of Drugs Act following enhancements to the law.<\/p>\n Ng pleaded guilty to three charges, including driving under the influence of etomidate, dangerous driving and possessing two Kpods.<\/p>\n A fourth charge was taken into consideration.<\/p>\n The court heard that Ng had purchased two Kpods for S$80 from a supplier on Telegram and smoked them using a vaporiser.<\/p>\n At about 8.50pm on Jan 3 this year, shortly after smoking Kpods, Ng drove his car along Pasir Ris Drive 1 towards Pasir Ris Drive 8 and turned right.<\/p>\n He turned into the wrong lane as he momentarily lost consciousness and went onto an adjacent carriageway along Pasir Ris Drive 6, against the flow of traffic.<\/p>\n The victim saw Ng’s car approaching him at a slow speed and braked and sounded his horn, but Ng continued driving forward, narrowly missing two motorcyclists.<\/p>\n One of them kicked Ng’s car to warn him that he was driving against the flow of traffic, but Ng kept going.<\/p>\n The victim reversed his car to avoid a collision, but Ng\u2019s car hit his vehicle, scratching it and ripping off a small portion of its front.<\/p>\n No one was injured. The victim spent S$490.50 to repair his vehicle.<\/p>\n The victim called the police, who found vape-related items in Ng’s car.<\/p>\n A further search uncovered vaporisers and pods on Ng, and etomidate was found in his blood.<\/p>\n Deputy Public Prosecutor Darren Ang said in court that etomidate is a hypnotic that is meant to be intravenously injected under medical supervision to induce general anaesthesia. It is not meant to be inhaled through vapes without careful dosage considerations.<\/p>\n “When inhaled, etomidate can result in psychiatric symptoms and other medical issues, some of which have been linked to traffic accidents and unnatural deaths,” said Mr Ang.<\/p>\n He noted the “sheer prevalence” of etomidate-related offences, saying that authorities have caught and penalised 2,589 people for possession and use of vapes, of which 377 were Kpod offenders from January to March this year.<\/p>\n Between 2023 and 2025, there were 38 traffic accidents linked to drug and etomidate use, of which 19 were fatal, and of these, nine involved etomidate, said Mr Ang, citing a Straits Times report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: A man who smoked Kpods, or vaporiser pods containing etomidate, drove dangerously against traffic, narrowly missing two motorcyclists and colliding with another vehicle. Ng…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64741,"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-64740","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\/64740","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=64740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}THE CASE<\/h2>\n
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