What happen to the Mazda Driver who killed the sales lady...
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sitting beside him during the test-drive....
No updates about his trial?????
A few yrs liao already rite?
Justice delayed????????? -
was thr a case regarding this? i only have a vague recall leh. it happend last yr or 2 yrs ago .
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hiding in a corner of his room feeling guilty, and being emo.
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can we have the source? if possible.
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http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=246412
Article from Straits Times 4 April 2007
Driver crashes test car, sales exec dies
# MARCH 21, 2007: Now he's shopping for these hot wheels
Netizens outraged that he's shopping for another fast car while still under probe over fatal test-drive
By Christopher Tan, Senior Correspondent
ONLINE forums used by the community of car enthusiasts have been aflame lately.
The target of their ire: the young man who got into an accident while test-driving a Mazda MX-5 in October 2005, which caused the death of the Mazda sales executive seated beside him.
These netizens are worked up because the said young man is - just 18 months later - shopping for a new high-performance car in an apparently nonchalant fashion.
Mr Regan Lee, 26, declared in a posting on mycarforum.com on March 21 that he was undecided between a Volkswagen Golf GTI and a Subaru WRX STI-S.
'Really in a dilemma at the moment,' he wrote. 'Would really like to own the GTI, but an extra $10k in car price would mean i gotta eat less every month ...lol...What you guys think?' ('lol' stands for 'laughing out loud' in online forum parlance.)
Discussions had begun on a cordial note, with forum participants offering their personal assessments of the GTI and the WRX.
Soon enough, someone recalled that Mr Lee was the one at the wheel of the Mazda MX-5 in the crash that left 22-year-old sales executive Angelia He Xueli dead.
That was when civility went out the window.
'Put him behind bars,' went the posting by Hamster Fest.
Legendkiller declared: 'He can run but he cannot hide. I will do my best to ensure that he does not get to drive another car again.'
The online attack spilled into other online forums such as Sammyboy.com and Hardwarezone.
In the latter, the discussion thread in the current affairs section pulled in a whopping 63,000 views - more than 50 times the average number that other topics in the section attract.
On the day of the accident, Mr Lee took a $110,000 Mazda MX-5 convertible for a test-drive.
Barely five minutes into the drive, while along Upper Paya Lebar Road, Mr Lee lost control of the MX-5, a car known for its above-par road-holding.
The car flew over the divider, smashed head-on into a black BMW, flipped over it and came crashing down onto a van on another lane.
He was unhurt, but Ms He died an hour later in hospital.
Mr Lee was arrested but was released on bail.
He has not been charged to this day, and police said yesterday that investigations were still being carried out.
Since the accident, Upper Paya Lebar Road has been repaved and realigned. Mazda Motor (Singapore) has received an insurance payout for the badly crushed MX-5, which is believed to have been scrapped.
Mr Lee could not be contacted for comment.
Hardwarezone member James Ng, 25, when asked why he thought forum participants have come down so hard on Mr Lee, said it probably had to do with the perception that justice had not been served, and that 'he still has his driving licence and he still poses a danger to others'.
Mr Ng, an undergraduate at SIM University, said forum posters were assuming Mr Lee was responsible for the accident.
He added that people also had not forgotten that it cost the life of a young woman.
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NETIZENS SAY
'He can run but he cannot hide. I will do my best to ensure that he does not get to drive another car again.'
LEGENDKILLER
'He still has his driving licence and he still poses a danger to others.' -
out of court settlement? lol
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relative of somebody that knows somebody related to somebody and so no more news?
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I thought few days after that April 2007 news report, the newspaper reported again that he was charged.
But there is no follow up still... -
hmmmm........
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sgforums CSI team... get to work... (maybe it is better the sgforums CID team... or Reporter team better)
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Anyone remember anything happened after 31 July?
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/282968/1/.html -
the family of the driver and the High Court are planning/scripting/choreographing a storyline to publicise to the press to make it a sensational one so that fellow singaporeans will believe whole-heartedly.
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Roger LEE.
isn't the surname a good deterrence for you all wanting to find out the truth? -
is thr justice in singapore ?
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yes, after all channels of cover up failsOriginally posted by jay_rocks:is thr justice in singapore ? -
Erm wasnt it Regan Lee?Originally posted by Ponders:Roger LEE.
isn't the surname a good deterrence for you all wanting to find out the truth? -
big malu liao
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Two men accused of driving dangerously, in separate incidents, have their cases heard
SINGAPORE: The man accused of injuring six women, when his car hurtled across Penang Road and ploughed into a bus stop on May 1, had his case adjourned yet again.
Lawyers representing Simon Wong Heng Chiang said the prosecution has asked the court for a postponement as they are still waiting for the release of the victims' medical reports.
Wong faces multiple charges of drink driving, driving dangerously and causing hurt through a negligent act.
He is out on S$10,000 bail and his passport has been impounded.
The case will be mentioned in court on July 2.
In a separate case, 26 year old Regan Lee Da Wen was on Monday charged with causing the death of his female passenger by driving dangerously.
The court heard that in October 2005, Lee lost control of a Mazda MX-5 during a test drive along Paya Lebar Road.
The car mounted a centre island, and crashed into another car, before flipping over and hitting a van.
22-year-old car salesperson Angelia He Xueli, who was in the sports car, later died in hospital.
Lee, who is out on S$10,000 bail, had his driving license suspended by the District Court in April.
His case on Monday was adjourned until 31 July, after his lawyers requested for more time to make representations to the Attorney General's Chambers.
Besides the criminal case, Lee could also face two civil suits, including one filed by Ms He's parents. - CNA/yy -
I soooooo nice...researched it for you.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Video+News/Singapore/STIVodcast_1980.html?playid=1980&type=SingaporeLee, who appeared in court today for his first pre-trial conference, faces a mandatory jail term of up to five years and a lifetime disqualification from driving, for dangerous driving causing death.
So final verdict is what? No one knows... -
why the process so long?
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govt sector is like that one. haven't you been to the army?Originally posted by laoda99:why the process so long? -
because the clerk kena fired for writing wrong number of strokes.Originally posted by laoda99:why the process so long? -
haha. thanks for pointing out..Originally posted by nullifi3d:Erm wasnt it Regan Lee? -
cont in existing thread.