Road Rage at Rangoon Rd
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Last Friday (7 May 10) at about 8pm at Rangoon Rd (near Farrer Park MRT and City Square Mall), my dad fell victim to road rage. A black car signaled to my dad’s car (silver in colour) to reverse so that the black car could park at the roadside. The moment my dad tried to reverse, the car behind him honked at him. My dad then stopped reversing cos there was nothing he could do. Suddenly the black car reversed at high speed. Despite my dad honking loudly to warn him, he rammed into my dad's car. 2 men covered in tatoos came out of the car and surrounded my dad. One pulled at my dad’s collar, raising his fist and threatening to beat him up if he didn't pay for damages. He insisted it was my dad's fault for not reversing. He demanded payment on the basis that it was his car rear that got banged. It was an outright pervasion of the law. Feeling endangered, my dad could only accede to his demands, not knowing that it was a case of road rage and the other driver could be charged with assault and battery. There were many onlookers, but none offered help.
On advice of my lawyer friends, I would like to appeal to any witnesses, especially the driver of the car behind the silver car, to step forward and speak up as a voice of justice. Pls reply this thread if you saw anything, or if you think you saw and need to clarify. All you have to do is to tell the insurance company what happened when they call. There’s no need to show your face at all if you don’t want to. I truly appreciate your help. Thank you.
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Nowadays ppl are more violent.
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ok calling all witnesses
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Kindly state the make of both cars involved. The race of the road bullies. You should report this incident to the cops.
The percentage of the onlookers using sgforums would be very slim though.
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His is a black Honda car, my dad's a silver Nissan car. They were Chinese.
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scary.
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Originally posted by desperate4help:
His is a black Honda car, my dad's a silver Nissan car. They were Chinese.
Have you reported to the police?
Have you looked for witnesses by going to that particular place at that particular time and ask around for witnesses?
Every day gone is every day gained for those thugs.
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Originally posted by -StarDust-:
Nowadays ppl are more violent.
Ain't nowadays. There are such people everywhere around the world and they've been around for decades.
It's considered lucky that we aren't in a state where certain guns and firearms are legalized.
Nonetheless, they ought to be punished.
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dont the insurance company pay for that kinda damages?
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dangerboi,
i read a road bully was once shot dead by an arab man in oz recently.the arab man was never caught.:)
self service law rulez!!!bring em on!!!yeahhhhh!!YEAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
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TAKE OUT A SAMURAI SWORD ,STICK IT OUTA YER CAR WINDOW AND DRIVE YER CAR AROUND N AROUND THE 3 MEN WITH TATTOOS,,,,,
COLLECT THEIR SKIN AND NOVELTY PARTS AFTER TURNIN ALL OF THEM INTO SHISH KEBAB!!!!
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IS IT ME GETTING COLDER HERE OR IS IT JUST THE WEATHER?
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Originally posted by desperate4help:
Last Friday (7 May 10) at about 8pm at Rangoon Rd (near Farrer Park MRT and City Square Mall), my dad fell victim to road rage. A black car signaled to my dad’s car (silver in colour) to reverse so that the black car could park at the roadside. The moment my dad tried to reverse, the car behind him honked at him. My dad then stopped reversing cos there was nothing he could do. Suddenly the black car reversed at high speed. Despite my dad honking loudly to warn him, he rammed into my dad's car. 2 men covered in tatoos came out of the car and surrounded my dad. One pulled at my dad’s collar, raising his fist and threatening to beat him up if he didn't pay for damages. He insisted it was my dad's fault for not reversing. He demanded payment on the basis that it was his car rear that got banged. It was an outright pervasion of the law. Feeling endangered, my dad could only accede to his demands, not knowing that it was a case of road rage and the other driver could be charged with assault and battery. There were many onlookers, but none offered help.
On advice of my lawyer friends, I would like to appeal to any witnesses, especially the driver of the car behind the silver car, to step forward and speak up as a voice of justice. Pls reply this thread if you saw anything, or if you think you saw and need to clarify. All you have to do is to tell the insurance company what happened when they call. There’s no need to show your face at all if you don’t want to. I truly appreciate your help. Thank you.
I wouldnt pay them a single cent...note the licence plate number and if they want they can claim from insurance.my premium might go up but I rather pay the insurance people.
beat me up and the case escalates to extortion.Not exactly the best of situations but I am not going to make it easy for them.
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i am a bit confused here.
I been reading papers/cases about how people get beaten up, but when they called the police, the police won't arrest but would advise the injured to make a magistrate's report and get those people summoned to court.
In the meantime, the injured got to leave with the pain/shame.
Can someone advise how can the injured or threatened get legal help? or simply, the police is useless in such cases??
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Originally posted by Hitman+:
IS IT ME GETTING COLDER HERE OR IS IT JUST THE WEATHER?
Maybe it's your brain!
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Whoa. I'm shocked.
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Originally posted by iceFatboy:
i am a bit confused here.
I been reading papers/cases about how people get beaten up, but when they called the police, the police won't arrest but would advise the injured to make a magistrate's report and get those people summoned to court.
In the meantime, the injured got to leave with the pain/shame.
Can someone advise how can the injured or threatened get legal help? or simply, the police is useless in such cases??
The cases that you read on papers are classified as Voluntarily Causing Hurt under section 323 of the Penal code Chapter 224. The illustration is defined under section 321.
This is a non-seizeable case. As such for most non-seizeable cases, the complainant will have to make a magistrate's complaint to set the case into motion. The police would have already conducted preliminary investigations on scene by gathering the facts and particulars of both parties. However if the complainant wishes to pursue the matter it is up to them to make the complaint to the magistrate to set the case into motion and there after the magistrate will either direct the police to investigate into the case further or will make judgement if he or she deems the evidence is sufficient.
I hope you can understand that not all offences will result in the accused getting arrested on the spot. For eg. people do not get arrested for littering or jaywalking.
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gosh, I live just a stone's throw away from where this happened and I pass by here every single day. i'd be so glad to help if I were there,
will forensics help in investigating who hit who? (inspect by scrutinizing damage?)
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until today, wats the outcome?
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That's shocking, can't we do anything to protect ourselves from those disgusting road bullies?
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use prudent.
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go pick up wing chun, it helps when it comes to close encounters like this.