‘We miss her laugh, her warmth’: Family, friends remember NUS undergrad Kathy Ong, who died in a taxi crash

[mojito]

If she drove like Ma Chi who's hurrying to take her lover to the nearest hotel, all bets are off.

Not die doing a right turn no.

 

[garlic]

Semi-autonomous cars would have prevented this death... not injuries, but certainly death...

 

[rushifa666]

Chjnese driver no survivor

 

[nayr69sg]

Didnt wear seatbelt.

 

[whoami]

Disagree. If she had her own car, she would be much safer and not wind up dead!

My uncle said if u see a car driven by a woman, dont go near it. If possible overtake tat car..

 

[kkbutterfly]

My uncle said if u see a car driven by a woman, dont go near it. If possible overtake tat car..

this definitively hold some solid truth. also stay away from old auntie old man drivers.

 

[winnipegjets]

That taxi driver should be made to pay $10 million to the parents. He should work till he die to pay of that debt.

8 weeks of jail and 5 year of driving suspension is a mere slap on the wrist for killing a person.

 

[bobby]

I am ready anytime to comfort her mother.....

 

[whoami]

this definitively hold some solid truth. also stay away from old auntie old man drivers.

Sometime also need to use common sense. Avoid going near cement mixer truck aka killer truck, trailer, etc etc

 

[sweetiepie]

My uncle said if u see a car driven by a woman, dont go near it. If possible overtake tat car

this definitively hold some solid truth. also stay away from old auntie old man drivers.

KNN this is part of defensive riding/driving lesson not covered in driving center KNN generally to stay away from @ginfreely type of drivers KNN

 

[laksaboy]

My uncle said if u see a car driven by a woman, dont go near it. If possible overtake tat car..

Horn her and scold her "Chow cheebai!" loudly. Make her nervous.

 

[whoami]

Horn her and scold her "Chow cheebai!" loudly. Make her nervous.

Last thing to do is to horn her. She go panicky,jam brake. Tere goes our car...

 

[syed putra]

“She said, 'Daddy, we don’t need a bigger house. We only need a home'. That was what Kathy was like.”
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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.

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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

Why is the taxi company not similarly prosecuted for not emhasising safety to their drivers?

 

[Cottonmouth]

Fault lies with discretionary turns.

Fuck the cheebye in LTA who insisted on it. His whole family will die in such accidents.

 

[cocobobo]

Not just taxi unker. Everyone involved not wearing a seat belt were negligent too.

 

[steffychun]

Parents still look young. Go fuck again to create another Kathy.

 

[JohnTan]

Serve her parents right for only having one child. If they didn't give in to their imaginary fears about the costs of raising more kids, they today wouldn't be facing the prospects of their family tree being ended by some shitty driver.

 

[mojito]

My uncle said if u see a car driven by a woman, dont go near it. If possible overtake tat car..

Yes, not necessarily safer for you.

 

[mojito]

I am ready anytime to comfort her mother.....

Lass was quite a looker, but momma..

 

[whoami]

Yes, not necessarily safer for you.

After overtake make sure we r miles away fm that car.