Driving ban and $6k fine for SAF NSF in fatal accident

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A full-time national serviceman (NSF) driving a five-tonner who caused the death of a lorry driver in an accident was fined $6,000 and banned from driving for three years.

The prosecution has appealed against the sentence.

On Nov 30 last year, Maung Ye Lin Aung, 20, was driving the truck along Eunos Link. He intended to turn right at a traffic light junction to get to Airport Road.

In the front passenger seats were designated vehicle commander Yee Yan Feng and second-in-command Yap Qi Ming.

At the junction, the traffic light was green but the green right-turn arrow had not come on.

The vehicle commander told Maung to stop and wait.

But Maung decided to turn right without slowing and failed to check for oncoming vehicles.

He assumed that the road was clear because another vehicle in front had managed to turn right safely.

As the five-tonner was making the turn, it collided with a lorry driven by Mr Gao Rong Jun, 23. Mr Gao, who was trapped inside the lorry and had to be extricated by civil defence officers, died on the spot.

District judge Roy Neighbour said it was more an error of judgment on Maung's part in failing to ensure that it was safe to turn when his vision was partially blocked by a bus in the opposite direction and which was waiting to make a turn.