“She said, 'Daddy, we don’t need a bigger house. We only need a home'. That was what Kathy was like.”
SINGAPORE: “It’s difficult to cope. At the start, I really couldn’t sleep,” said Kathy Ong’s mum Jacqueline Ng, describing the loss of her 19-year-old daughter after a taxi driver’s negligent actions caused her death.
“I feel that what is missing is all her laughter. When she was at home, she laughed a lot,” Jacqueline recalled. “We don’t know what we’re going to do moving forward, without her.”
Taxi driver Yap Kok Hua was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail and banned from driving for five years on Aug 2, but for Kathy’s family, it is a life sentence.
Her parents Jacqueline and Keith feel the pain of losing Kathy as strongly as the day she died on Apr 19 last year.
She had been in a taxi with three friends, going from Clementi to the National University of Singapore (NUS), where they were studying.
Yap decided to make a discretionary right turn from Commonwealth Avenue West into Clementi Road despite seeing a car coming towards him.
The other driver Ng Li Ning - who has since been charged with dangerous driving - was going at a speed between 92kmh and 97kmh, a court heard, but Yap decided to try and clear the junction.
He did not, and the collision threw Kathy out of her seat. She suffered serious injuries, together with three others in the taxi. One of them suffered a brain injury, and the other was left in a vegetative state after the smash. All four were rushed to hospital.
Jacqueline said she vividly remembered the moment she received a call from Kathy’s friend.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...xi-driver-yap-kok-hua-crash-clementi-11813398
SINGAPORE: “It’s difficult to cope. At the start, I really couldn’t sleep,” said Kathy Ong’s mum Jacqueline Ng, describing the loss of her 19-year-old daughter after a taxi driver’s negligent actions caused her death.
“I feel that what is missing is all her laughter. When she was at home, she laughed a lot,” Jacqueline recalled. “We don’t know what we’re going to do moving forward, without her.”
Taxi driver Yap Kok Hua was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail and banned from driving for five years on Aug 2, but for Kathy’s family, it is a life sentence.
Her parents Jacqueline and Keith feel the pain of losing Kathy as strongly as the day she died on Apr 19 last year.
She had been in a taxi with three friends, going from Clementi to the National University of Singapore (NUS), where they were studying.
Yap decided to make a discretionary right turn from Commonwealth Avenue West into Clementi Road despite seeing a car coming towards him.
The other driver Ng Li Ning - who has since been charged with dangerous driving - was going at a speed between 92kmh and 97kmh, a court heard, but Yap decided to try and clear the junction.
He did not, and the collision threw Kathy out of her seat. She suffered serious injuries, together with three others in the taxi. One of them suffered a brain injury, and the other was left in a vegetative state after the smash. All four were rushed to hospital.
Jacqueline said she vividly remembered the moment she received a call from Kathy’s friend.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...xi-driver-yap-kok-hua-crash-clementi-11813398
