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SINGAPORE \u2013 A 94-year-old driver who collided with a motorcyclist who had the right of way along Upper Thomson Road has been handed a five-year driving disqualification and a $5,000 fine.<\/p>\n
Goh Boon Kang pleaded guilty on Nov 4 to one charge of driving without reasonable consideration to other road users and causing grievous hurt to the victim.<\/p>\n
Goh, who was using a walking stick in court, was allowed to sit during proceedings.<\/p>\n
The court heard that the accident happened as he was making a discretionary right turn along Upper Thomson Road, near the junction of Jalan Angklong, on Sept 2, 2025, at around 9.45am.<\/p>\n
Goh failed to give way to a motorcyclist coming from his left and collided with him.<\/p>\n
Footage of the accident played in court showed the 58-year-old motorcyclist being thrown off his motorbike onto the road.<\/p>\n
Another motorcyclist came close to crashing into Goh\u2019s car but managed to stop in time.<\/p>\n
The victim suffered multiple leg fractures and was warded at Tan Tock Seng Hospital for 32 days before being transferred to a hospital in Malaysia to continue his treatment.<\/p>\n
Singapore does not impose a maximum age limit for holding a driver\u2019s licence.<\/p>\n
Under the Road Traffic Act, medical assessments are required for motorists aged 65 and above who wish to retain their driving licences.<\/p>\n
The three-yearly assessment covers the motorist\u2019s past medical history, vision, hearing, movement, and physical or mental abnormalities.<\/p>\n
A Singapore-registered medical practitioner conducts the assessment using the medical examination checklist developed by the Traffic Police, based on guidelines by the Singapore Medical Association.<\/p>\n
The road traffic situation is a concern,<\/span><\/a> with the number of traffic accidents resulting in injuries increasing from 3,748 in the first half of 2025 to 3,869 in the same period in 2026.<\/p>\n The number of road traffic deaths hit a 10-year high of 149 in 2025<\/span><\/a>, compared with 141 in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A 94-year-old driver who collided with a motorcyclist who had the right of way along Upper Thomson Road has been handed a five-year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97666,"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-97665","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\/97665","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=97665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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