Speeding is top motorist offence
Road safety issues in national spotlight
A FATAL car crash that killed five in Tanjong Pagar on Feb 13 has put wider road safety issues in the national spotlight.
Police believe the vehicle was speeding along a stretch with a 50kph limit while residents described speeding cars as a longstanding disturbance in the area.
The Traffic Police (TP) told The Sunday Times that speeding was the top offence committed by motorists in the past three years.
Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE), May 2020
Six men and two women, aged between 20 and 42, were nabbed shortly after a viral dashboard camera video showed at least nine cars zooming past a car said to be doing 80kph.
Tuas South Boulevard, March 2020
Fifty-seven motorists were investigated for participating in an illegal car race after a “street-cars meet-up” at East Coast Park.
Central Expressway (CTE), 2018
Two men, aged 39 and 27, and each driving a Mitsubishi Evolution 10 sports sedan swerved from lane to lane along the CTE as they overtook other motorists.
Their speeds were recorded at 184kph and 178kph, along an expressway with a limit of 90kph.
Lim Chu Kang Road, 2017
Two men, aged 40, raced each other in their modified BMWs, reaching speeds of up to 179kph against a road limit of 70kph.
Lim Chu Kang Road, 2018
Two men, aged 37 and 26, and both driving Volkswagen GTIs, raced each other down the same stretch, clocking speeds of up to 136kph.
Seletar Link, 2015
Two men, aged 24 and 37, raced each other in Lamborghini and Nissan supercars, reaching 219kph as spectators cheered them on from the side of a road with a speed limit of 60kph. — The Straits Times/ANN