LTA killed Ma Chi

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The overhead traffic lights is essential, should not have been removed.

[h=1]Rochor Road-Victoria Street junction is safe, says LTA[/h][h=2]It has done checks but some drivers, experts point out potential hazards[/h]By Christopher Tan
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The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has checked the Rochor Road-Victoria Street junction where two recent high-profile accidents took place, and found it to be safe.

The checks were done in the day as well as in the middle of the night after the accidents.

But 'as an added precautionary measure', the LTA said it will 'synchronise the green phase' of the pedestrian crossing signals and the Victoria Street signal lights, so that both will be green at the same time.

It added that it will reinstate a set of overhead traffic signals once MRT works in the area are completed next year.

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[h=1]Ferrari crash site, faster installation of overhead traffic lights: LTA[/h]
<!--start of story text--><!--start of story text-->Last week, the LTA synchronised the traffic lights at Victoria Street junction with another pair at the pedestrian crossing between Bugis Village and Bugis Junction as an enhanced safety feature.

The Land Transport Authority has further beefed up efforts to improve road safety at the Victoria Street junction.

Noting how many members of the public had sent in their feedback and suggestions on how to further improve this road junction, a LTA spokesman said it will bring forward the installation of the overhead traffic lights at the junction as another precautionary measure, ahead of its original installation date in 2013.

Works to install the overhead traffic signals will begin tomorrow and the overhead traffic light is expected to start operating from early next week.


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Confirmed that the LTA killed Ma Chi. Ma Chi was not drunk. The removal of the overhead traffic lights was the cause.

Ferrari driver was not intoxicated: HSA report
The toxicology report showed no detectable traces of intoxicating substances, such as drugs and alcohol.
Fri, Jul 13, 2012
my paper
By Sujin Thomas, News Editor
THE driver of the Ferrari involved in a horrific crash at the junction of Rochor Road and Victoria Street in May had not consumed alcohol or taken controlled drugs before getting behind the wheel.

Contrary to speculation that the driver, Chinese national Ma Chi, 31, had been drunk, a Health Sciences Authority (HSA) toxicology report showed no detectable traces of intoxicating substances, such as drugs and alcohol.

my paper first got wind of the report findings about two weeks ago and viewed the document from a source yesterday.
On May 12, the Ferrari allegedly beat a red light and crashed into a ComfortDelGro taxi, which then hit a motorcycle at the junction.

Mr Ma, a financial investor from Sichuan, died at the scene, while cabby Cheng Teck Hock, 52, died in hospital along with his Japanese passenger, Ms Shigemi Ito, 41.

Both the motorcyclist and a female passenger in the Ferrari were injured.

The female passenger had earlier been identified in media reports as Ms Wu Wei Wei, a student from Wuhan, China, who is said to be in her 20s.

She was said to have been at a graduation party with her classmates just hours before the crash. It is unclear how she knew Mr Ma.

Mr Ma's family released a statement to my paper yesterday.

It said: "We are glad that the scientific reports are out and will help in the investigations. We will miss (Mr Ma) very much and we will continue to follow the Singapore laws as to what we should do next.

"It has been a very difficult time for the family to lose a father and husband so suddenly."

Mr Ma's family is represented by law firm Drew & Napier.

Mr Ma's wife, Madam He Tingting, 28, who was heavily pregnant at the time of the crash, is said to have given birth to the couple's second child about two to three weeks ago.

They also have a four-year-old daughter.

Less than a week after the crash, Madam He apologised to the families of the taxi driver and his passenger, who were killed by Mr Ma's "driving error".

In a post on Weibo, a popular website among Chinese nationals, she said that her family "will not ignore the matter", reported Chinese evening daily Lianhe Wanbao.

Sources told my paper that Mr Ma's family is currently in discussion with AXA Singapore over the issue of insurance coverage following the crash.


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