Drink driver jailed, banned for hit-and-run fatal accident along ECP
Published on Jul 09, 2013
Chua Cheng Giak (above), a businessman who drank and drove and caused a fatal accident along an expressway was sentenced to 14 months' jail and banned from driving for eight years on Tuesday, July 8, 2013. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
By Elena Chong
A businessman who drank and drove and caused a fatal accident along an expressway was sentenced to 14 months' jail and banned from driving for eight years on Tuesday.
Chua Cheng Giak, 38, pleaded guilty to three charges and had three others taken into consideration.
He was driving his Audi car above the 90kmph-speed limit along East Coast Parkway at 2.24am on May 23 last year when he caused the death a Bangladeshi construction worker by doing a rash act.
His car hit the back of a lorry, causing it to veer to its left side, hit a railing and a lamp post, which in turn caused the vehicle to mount the guard railing, resulting in the worker Md Hazrat Ali Md Maser Ali being thrown out from the rear covered deck.
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