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Holding his son, Mr Fakhrizal Nashr turned around to look.
His wife and her sister-in-law-to-be were no longer where they were a moment ago.
Instead, he saw a mangled minibus stuck against the outer wall of the Social Development Network (SDN) compound at Stevens Road. That was three years ago.
The minibus had hit Mr Fakhrizal's wife, Madam Etty Marlina Syaiful, 28, and Miss Eka Prativi, 22, who were in Singapore with their Indonesian families for a two-day vacation.
The impact was so great that Madam Etty was thrown over the wall and into the SDN compound. Miss Eka lay slumped on the road. Mr Fakhrizal handed their son, then aged two, to his in-laws before rushing over to help.
Madam Etty, a civil servant, and Miss Eka, a student, died in hospital later.
For causing the deaths of two pedestrians by a rash act, bus driver Yahya Abdul Kader, 47, was yesterday jailed for nine months and disqualified from driving all classes of vehicles for eight years.
Mr Fakhrizal, Madam Etty and Miss Eka were walking to the Orchard Road shopping belt from a relative's home at Balmoral Road with five other family members at around 10am on Nov 12, 2011.
It was their second day in Singapore, and they were due to fly back to Indonesia that night.
As they walked, Madam Etty and Miss Eka were at the back of the group as they were taking pictures of the scenery.
Said Mr Fakhrizal, a Jakarta-based manager at The Nature Conservancy: "I saw that they stopped walking as they were taking pictures. So I continued walking. About 10 seconds later, I heard a loud crash. Just like that, she's gone."
Police investigations revealed that Yahya, a Singaporean, had been travelling on Stevens Road in the direction of Scotts Road, which consisted of a gradual right bend at SDN and had a speed limit of 60kmh.
According to an accident reconstruction report, he had ploughed straight into his two victims, who were standing on the pavement, without making any evasive manoeuvres.
This suggested that the driver did not follow the right-turning bend, said the report.
It concluded that the crash was due to driver error.
Yahya had also told the police that his "vision was blurred" and he had "blacked out" before the crash, but a medical report said there was no cause for his loss of consciousness.
Yahya also suffered abrasions and chest pains, and was discharged five days later.
He told the court in a written mitigation plea that he was remorseful for what he had done and pleaded for leniency.
Mr Fakhrizal said he had been waiting for justice to be served for a long time. He said life has not been easy after the loss of his wife. His only son, now five years old, needs the care of his parents and in-laws as his work requires him to move around a lot.
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