Woman in Loyang hit-and-run wants to meet irresponsible driver... just so she can punch him

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Bedridden with spinal injuries after a hit-and-run incident, a young woman wants to meet the driver responsible for her situation - just so she can punch him.

Miss Siti Nadiah Nen, 23, is so angry with the driver for not stopping to help her and her friend after the accident.

"If I can meet him, I just want to ask... Why me? Why us? What did we do to deserve this?"

On Wednesday night, she was still too shaken to speak about the accident but was in better shape the night after as she recounted to TNP what happened.

Mr Mohammad Mazree Abdul Majib, 24, was taking Miss Nadiah home on his motorcycle on Tuesday after supper at Changi Village when the accident happened at 10.30pm on Loyang Avenue.

After the collision with the car sent them sprawling to the ground bleeding, the driver left the scene with the car dragging the motorcycle as it drove off.

A motorcyclist, Mr Zailan Zohri, 26, was on his way home after work at the Land Transport Authority when he saw the accident scene.

He initially thought that the motorcycle parts strewn across the road were pieces of rubbish. He was then shocked to see Mr Mohammad Mazree lying alone on a patch of grass.

He was trying to comfort the injured man and to keep him awake, when he learnt that another person was involved in the accident.

"I was so shocked to hear him say, 'Where's my pillion? Where's my friend?'," Mr Zailan said. "It was only then that I looked around and saw a woman about 20m away from us, lying on the road, being tended to by a group of cyclists."

Another good samaritan, Mr Shahrul Rizal, 36, an off-duty Singapore Civil Defence Force firefighter who tended to Miss Nadiah at the scene while waiting for help to arrive, said that she was conscious and responsive at the time.

But she now recalls little of the accident except for the great force of the impact and waking up in the ambulance in excruciating pain.

Miss Nadiah, a nurse at the Singapore General Hospital, said she was told that she was flung so far away from Mr Mohammad Mazree that a group of cyclists who stopped to help him did not realise he had a pillion rider.

Two cyclists who chased and caught the driver said that he was reeking of alcohol. The police have arrested him.

Apart from the spinal fracture, she also had a concussion and severe lacerations. Mr Mohammad Mazree had a lower left hip fracture and facial injuries.

The victims were taken to Changi General Hospital (CGH) with Miss Nadiah suffering the more serious injuries.