Traffic Accidents (Warning: Lots of Photos)

[Guest east539]

June 2005: Traffic accident involving a Honda Civic. The victim's husband was close to tears when he arrived at the scene in his lorry and saw the badly smashed up car.

Jun 2005: A van carrying elderly passengers from an old folks' day-care centre collided with a van. One of them died from serious head injuries.

Traffic accident involving a car and taxi at the junction of Mandai Road and Mandai Lake Road

Oct 2005: Traffic accident involving a car and taxi at the junction of Mandai Road and Mandai Lake Road.

[Guest east539]

Oct 2005: Traffic accident outside the entrance to MacRitchie Reservoir. The motorcyclist died at the scene of accident after he was run over by a trailer.

Jul 2005: Traffic accident involving three motorcars. Traffic along Eu Tong Sen Street came to a crawl after a four-vehicle collision outside People's Park Complex. Two cars, an SBS bus and a taxi were involved in the crash. The driver of a dark blue Mercedes, which crashed into some hoardings, was trapped in his car. He was freed within minutes by civil defence officers. He and two other men were taken to hospital with minor injuries

Jul 2005: Traffic accident involving three motorcars. Traffic along Eu Tong Sen Street came to a crawl after a four-vehicle collision outside People's Park Complex. Two cars, an SBS bus and a taxi were involved in the crash. The driver of a dark blue Mercedes, which crashed into some hoardings, was trapped in his car. He was freed within minutes by civil defence officers. He and two other men were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

Oct 2005: Staff Sergeant Noranzor Abdul Latiff, 32, died in a traffic accident along Yio Chu Kang Road while on duty. He was attached to the Traffic Patrol Unit of the Ang Mo Kio Police Division.

[Guest east539]

Traffic accident on AYE. A container truck, a private bus and a van were travelling towards Jurong and collided on the AYE near Normanton Park. It caused a long traffic jam up to CTE at Outram. No one was injured.

June 2005: Traffic accident involving five cars and a motorcycle. Two people were injured when three cars, two taxis and a motorcycle was involved in a road accident at the Pan Island Expressway (PIE) near the Alijunied flyover. The accident happened when the motorcycle which was moving towards Jurong tried to change lane.

June 2005: Fatal traffic accident at the crossing between Specialist Shopping Centre and Orchard Emerald. Ms Oh Yiing Chen, 24, was killed. Two more pedestrians were injured.

Dec 2006: Fatal traffic accident between motorcycle and lorry. Siti Rizana Roslan, 23, a waitress in a pizza company, was returning home from work. She was riding her 135cc Yamaha RXZ when she collided with a lorry coming from the opposite direction. She died from her injuries in the hospital.

[Guest east539]

January 2007: A traffic accident involving two motorcycles along the SLE (towards BKE) before the Yishun exit caused by a slowdown on the expressway for more than an hour. One of the motorcyclists was pronnounced dead on the spot.

Jan 2007: A traffic accident involving two motorcycles along the SLE (towards BKE) before the Yishun exit caused by a slowdown on the expressway for more than an hour. One of the motorcyclists was pronnounced dead on the spot.

June 2007: Traffic accident at junction of Bishan Road and Bishan Street 22 between a car and a taxi. Drivers looked on in surprise when a car overturned after a collision. The driver and passenger of the car, as well as the cab driver, escaped with minor injuries.

July 2005: Traffic accident between a lorry and a taxi caused a one-hour traffic jam in Guillemard Road. The impact caused the goods truck to tip onto its side.

[Guest east539]

Oct 2007: Traffic Accident at 60 Stevens Rd. A driver was trapped in his car after he rammed into a tree along Stevens Road at 1am on Saturday. The impact was so great that the front portion of the car was a mangled mess.

Mar 2008: Police officer Cpl Abdul Halim Bin Abdul Samad, 22, who was riding a scrambler, was killed in a traffic accident at the junction of Eu Tong Seng Street and Hospital Road.

Mar 2008: Traffic accident along Loyang Avenue towards Tampines Road. A multi-vehicle pile up, involving two lorries, two cars and an SBS bus which killed one driver.

From Asia 1 Motoring Section

[Guest east539]

this is the most serious one...

He works so hard he dozes off at wheel

ON 26 Dec, Mr Ng Ho Wing turned 31 and decided it was time to settle down.

He told his fiancee, Miss Coco Jia, who is two months' pregnant, of his dream - a decently-furnished house to call their own.

Needing extra income, the Hong Konger started working 20 hours a day.

Other than his day job at a transport company, he also made extra rounds delivering newspapers or vegetables in the wee hours of the morning.

But his dreams ended when he died in an accident at 7.50am on Saturday while on his way to work.

He is believed to have fallen asleep while driving, due to his long hours.

His minivan hit the concrete wall of a highway in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. Apparently, he had not been wearing his seat belt.

Mr Ng was thrown out through his door and sandwiched between the minivan and a fence. His body was torn into two, reported South China Morning Post.

The minivan travelled another 400m before crashing to a halt.

Mr Ng's severed body was such a gruesome sight that police decided that covering it up was not enough - they sealed the road so that other motorists would not be able to see the accident, reported The Sun.

There was a trail of blood from where the accident happened to where his body parts were found. One of his sports shoes was spotted somewhere in between while the other shoe was still in his minivan.

Gory sight

Mr Ng's mother, fiancee and relatives did not get to see him for the last time, although they arrived at the morgue.

The police had suggested that they did not go in because the sight was too gory, reported Apple Daily.

On realising that she could not see her fiance one last time, Miss Jia sobbed inconsolably.

Pressing the bag to her body, she kept repeating: 'Why did you leave me behind?'

Later in the day, they went to the accident scene to conduct a Taoist ritual.

Miss Jia was so distraught that she did not even realise that one of the lighted candles was burning her hand and she had to be pulled away from the flame.

Mr Ng's eldest brother had told him to take care and not overwork, but Mr Ng did not listen, reported Apple Daily.

The police believe that Mr Ng, who had eight years of driving experience, had dozed off at the wheel.

No tyre marks indicating a sudden attempt to stop were found and the crash site was not an accident area.

The highway speed limit is 70kmh.

Acting Superintendent Wong Kin Wing, of the New Territories South traffic unit, told South China Morning Post: 'The seat belt is not damaged, so we suspect the driver didn't have it fastened.'

Mr Ringo Lee Yiu Pui, the president of the Institute of the Motor Industry of Hong Kong, said it was unusual for a body to be thrown from a vehicle and torn into two.

'The van must have been travelling very fast,' he said.

From Asia 1

[Guest Sareve]

Judging by the amount of motorcycle deaths in these pictures, it's probably a pretty good idea not to ride a bike. Might I suggest that our forum members try to attend defensive driving courses too. Aside from being really fun, they might end up saving your life.

[Guest SgLaKsa]

Judging by the amount of motorcycle deaths in these pictures, it's probably a pretty good idea not to ride a bike. Might I suggest that our forum members try to attend defensive driving courses too. Aside from being really fun, they might end up saving your life.

Good suggestion bro, where can we attend such a course?

[Guest Sareve]

SgLaKsa ]

Judging by the amount of motorcycle deaths in these pictures, it' wrote:

Good suggestion bro, where can we attend such a course?

BMW offers a 2 defensive driving courses, you get discounts/free trip if you own a bmw, just call PML and ask. I believe Willy and my friend Tim are going somewhere in May or June, you could talk to them if you want to join up. It's 3 people per car and it's best to go with friends to make it even more enjoyable. They'll teach you proper safe driving technique, like the whole both hands at the 3 and 9 position all the time and how to avoid accidents/counter oversteer and understeer.

[Guest Mike]

i think these photos serve as a very gd reminder for those reckless driver