A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to two weeks in jail after he caused a car accident on the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE).
The accident occurred after he grabbed the steering wheel of his friend’s car during a dispute over a traffic fine.
On 12 Dec last year, Xu Junxiang (name transliterated from Mandarin) asked his 26-year-old female friend to pick him up at a taxi stand.
She was issued a S$130 fine for illegally entering the taxi stand.
Xu was not present at the pick-up location he had provided.
After picking him up from the nearby InterContinental Hotel at 8.40pm, she demanded Xu pay for the fine, but he refused, sparking a heated argument.
As tensions rose, Xu suddenly reached over from the passenger seat and grabbed the steering wheel, turning it violently twice.
Source: Google Maps, for illustration purposes only.
His actions caused the car to veer out of control as it collided with a bus in the left lane.
The vehicle continued drifting before crashing into the expressway’s guardrail.
While investigators could not definitively determine whether Xu or the driver caused the final impact, Xu’s interference was directly responsible for the initial loss of control.
No passengers were on the bus at the time of the crash, and no injuries were reported.
Source: MS News
Xu pleaded guilty to one charge of rash act endangering the safety of others, with a second charge taken into consideration during sentencing.
The court sentenced him to two weeks in jail.
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Featured image adapted from Google Maps and MS News.