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SINGAPORE: Former local actor Edmund Chen on Monday (Jul 20) had his five-day jail term <\/strong>for injuring a motorcyclist in a collision cut to one day after a partially successful appeal.<\/p>\n The five-year driving ban still stands.<\/p>\n Chen, named in court papers as Tan Kai Yuan, had slowed down abruptly on an expressway such that a motorcyclist collided with him, sustaining fractures.<\/p>\n Chen switched lawyers and launched the appeal after the judge imposed a jail term as he did not agree with a fine as sought by both the prosecution and defence.<\/p>\n The lower court judge said there was a “high degree of carelessness” and a sustained period of inattention in Chen’s actions, and that he was “deliberately cavalier about certain mitigable risks”.<\/p>\n Chen, a 64-year-old Singaporean, had pleaded guilty to one count of driving a vehicle without reasonable consideration for other road users, resulting in grievous hurt.<\/p>\n He had driven along Ayer Rajah Expressway towards the direction of Central Expressway at about noon on Mar 4, 2025.<\/p>\n He was on lane 4 of the four-lane road and intended to drive towards an expressway via lanes 1 and 2 but did not move into the correct lanes in time.<\/p>\n By the time he realised this, he was already headed towards a split road leading to Keppel Road.<\/p>\n He tried to enter the second lane by braking abruptly such that his car slowed down and almost came to a complete stop.<\/p>\n The victim, a 21-year-old motorcyclist, was in the fourth lane behind Chen. He was unable to swerve to avoid Chen’s car and collided with the rear left portion of the vehicle.<\/p>\n When the collision occurred, Chen was filtering across the third lane and across the white chevron markings, which is a breach of traffic regulations. After the accident, he stopped his car and helped the victim, who was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n As a result of the accident, the motorcyclist’s front headlamp was dislodged and cracked, and the right side of his motorcycle was also scratched.<\/p>\n The victim sustained multiple fractures in his right hand and wrist and underwent surgery. He was given 99 days’ hospitalisation leave but suffered no permanent injury.<\/p>\n For driving without due consideration for other road users, resulting in grievous hurt, he could have been jailed for up to two years, fined up to S$5,000, or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: Former local actor Edmund Chen on Monday (Jul 20) had his five-day jail term for injuring a motorcyclist in a collision cut to one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--yXsb4NLV--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_72\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/07\/20\/img_5704.jpg?itok=7OKEe1lL","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3622,2352,8566,1445,269,17187,10334,780,2747],"class_list":["post-70156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-actor","tag-appeal","tag-chen","tag-cut","tag-day","tag-edmund","tag-fiveday","tag-jail","tag-term","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70156","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=70156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}THE CASE<\/h2>\n
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