Cement mixer driver fined and banned for causing death
Published on Dec 23, 2011
A cement mixer driver was fined $5,000 and banned from driving for three years on Friday for causing the death of a foreign worker in Tuas. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Elena Chong
A driver of a cement mixer was fined $5,000 and banned from driving for three years on Friday for causing the death of a foreign worker in Tuas.
Mok Nyeong Lock, 60, admitted to causing the death of Mr Rahman Kadar Sarder, 21, who was walking along the reclaimed land at Tuas near Tuas South Avenue 16 on April 15 last year.
A court heard that Mok had delivered cement and was driving along the reclaimed land at about midnight when he spotted a dark skinned man talking on the phone and walking 20 to 30m away on the side of the road.
When he drove past the Bangladeshi construction worker, he claimed that the latter did an act as if he wanted to hitch a ride.
He accelerated and continued driving straight ahead.
He failed to keep a proper lookout and hit the deceased, who died of multiple injuries at the scene.
He could have been jailed for up to two years and/or fined for causing death by doing a negligent act.
A cement mixer driver was fined $5,000 and banned from driving for three years on Friday for causing the death of a foreign worker in Tuas. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Elena Chong
A driver of a cement mixer was fined $5,000 and banned from driving for three years on Friday for causing the death of a foreign worker in Tuas.
Mok Nyeong Lock, 60, admitted to causing the death of Mr Rahman Kadar Sarder, 21, who was walking along the reclaimed land at Tuas near Tuas South Avenue 16 on April 15 last year.
A court heard that Mok had delivered cement and was driving along the reclaimed land at about midnight when he spotted a dark skinned man talking on the phone and walking 20 to 30m away on the side of the road.
When he drove past the Bangladeshi construction worker, he claimed that the latter did an act as if he wanted to hitch a ride.
He accelerated and continued driving straight ahead.
He failed to keep a proper lookout and hit the deceased, who died of multiple injuries at the scene.
He could have been jailed for up to two years and/or fined for causing death by doing a negligent act.
