Late night spin for 4 buddies ended with two killed
Late night spin for 4 buddies ended with two killed
Driver and front seat passenger survived when car plunged into a ditch along Old Upper Thomson Road.
By Carolyn Quek , Diana Othman and Teh Joo Lin
The driver and his front seat passenger, escaped with slight injuries. They were probably saved by the airbag. -- PHOTOS: FRANCIS ONG (ST), FRIENDSTER.COM
The 20-year-old driver and his front seat passenger, Mr Tan Han Leng, were sent to Singapore General Hospital.
The horrific crash happened at 11.45 pm as the car, a Mitsubishi Lancer, was travelling along Old Upper Thomson Road towards the Seletar Expressway.
It is not known if the two rear passengers were wearing seat belts.
Mr David Li, 18, (above) died on arrival at the Singapore General Hospital while Mr Teo died shortly later.
Mr Tan said his group decided to go for another spin as they felt "bored". That was when the tragedy struck.
Mr Tan's mother, Madam Linda Loh, an administrator, said she was told of the accident when her son called her on his mobile phone from the scene aftern midnight.
David Li's brother and a priest were seen at the crash site performing some last rites for the deceased.
A LATE night spin for four buddies on what used to be a Grand Prix track here came to a tragic end when the car plunged more than one metre down a slope, and slammed sideways into trees, killing two of them in the back seat.
The two dead passengers - both students of Nanyang Polytechnic, were apparently not wearing seatbelts. The driver, a Republic Polytechnic student and front passenger, also from Nanyang Poly, survived with injuries.
The car was travelling along Old Upper Thomson Road towards Seletar Expressway when the accident happened at about 11.45 pm on Tuesday, police said.
While negotiating a curve not far away from what is famously known as Devil's Bend, the car went off road and moments later, plunged more than a metre down slope before hitting one of the trees in the wooded area.
The four youths, aged between 18 and 20, were trapped in the Mitsubishi Lancer, and rescuers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force had to extricate them.
Mr David Li, 18, suffered head injuries and died on the spot. His friend, Mr Mervin Teo, 19, who was found slumped over him, was taken unconscious to Tan Tock Seng Hospital where he died at 1.20am.
The 20-year-old driver and front seat passenger, Mr Tan Han Leng, 20, were sent to Singapore General Hospital. The driver was discharged on Wednesday morning, while Mr Tan suffered cuts and underwent surgery for injuries to his left hand.
Recounting the accident from his hospital bed at SGH, Mr Tan told The Straits Times soon after he emerged from an operation to his injured left hand, that his group of four, together with another two friends who were in another car, had earlier gone for supper at a roti prata restaurant in Thomson Road to celebrate their friend passing his driving test.
Mr Toh Tian Boon, also a Nanyang Polytechnic student, who had just cleared his driving test, then asked where he could try out his newly acquired driving skills.
Mr Tan said he suggested the nearby former Grand Prix track at Old Upper Thomson Road, which he warned the group was 'notorious for accidents' and advised them to belt up.
After driving one round, Mr Toh left the four as he had to send his passenger, a girl student from Nanyang Polytechynic, home.
Mr Tan said his group decided to go for another spin as they felt 'bored'. That was when the tragedy struck.
'Our car suddenly skidded. For a few moments, I felt weightless. Next, I remember the car landing on its sides,' Mr Tan, who was the front seat passenger, recalled.
'I called out to my two friends sitting at the back. There was no response from them, except heavy breathing.'
Mr Tan's mother, Madam Linda Loh, 58, an administrator, said she was told of the accident when her son called her on his mobile phone from the scene after midnight.
'He sounded panicky and just told me 'Mom. Accident. I am okay but my two friends are critically injured. He just hanged up,' she told The Straits Times while waiting for her son to come out of operation at SGH on Wednesday afternoon.
Madam Loh said the four friends were 'as close as brothers' and often went out together.
Mr Li was cremated at Mandai Crematorium on Wednesday afternoon.
Friends remember him as 'chubby and cheerful'. Mr Hoe Guofeng, a full-time national serviceman, 22, who was in the same basketball group as Mr Li about seven years ago, said: 'In our eyes, he was always a cute and chubby kid as he was the youngest in our clique.'
'He was very chatty, always cheerful and entertaining. You will never meet as cheerful a friend as him.'
Friends of Mr Li from Nanyang Polytechnic and his alma mater, Mayflower Secondary School, paid their last respects to him at Mandai Crematorium.
His distraught elder brother, Dennis, 27, an operations assistant, said he last saw Mr Li at home at about 8.30 pm on Tuesday night before he went out to meet his friends.
Miss Judy Chen Nien Tsu, 29, an adult student from Nanyang Poly, described Mr Li and Mr Teo as 'easy-going and fun-loving, with positive attitudes'.
Mr Li's old schoolmate at Mayflower, Mr Farid Rahmad, 18, added: 'He's a joker. He loved to joke and often made us laugh.'
Anyone with information on the accident can call the traffic police at 1800-547-1818.
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Re: Late night spin for 4 buddies ended with two killed
Hey i was there this afternoon at the crematorium. The atmosphere is so sad. David was my secondary school friend. He used to sit in front of me. & he's such a nice guy. He will be missed. ):
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Hey i was there this afternoon at the crematorium. The atmosphere is so sad. David was my secondary school friend. He used to sit in front of me. & he's such a nice guy. He will be missed. ):
I'm sorry that you had lost a friend.
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Check out the blood stains on the driver side door.
From the tyre marks you can't see much tyre imprints and also the large width possibly suggest they understeer (right) straight into the trees. Lancers don't wear such a wide tyres.
Car went down and flip to the left and overturn.
Great tragedy. They could've had a bright future.
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just pass and go devil bend "test" "skills".....?.... the devil take them home thats all i can say... maybe see too much fast and furious and initial d...
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Think I better remove the pictures. It's so sad.
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omfg. really sad lahs.
they all so young sia.
my frenz drove mie along devil's bend in the midnite b4...
its really really spooky. i sit @ the back alone n infront got the driver n 1 of my ger frenz.
the road sibei long.. i keep askin y haven go out..
its so eerie there lors.. lucky we had nth happen..
babyLEXI, wad gone is gone.. cheer up..
the 2 guys RIP bahs... haiis.
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Re: Late night spin for 4 buddies ended with two killed
Late night spin with buddies. I do suppose young and restless. As above with Scorpius, I think the speed did them in... See how badly smashed up the car was! Speeding kills. Maybe it doesn't but it definitely does if u can't handle it. Nevertheless, it's nothing to be happy about. It must have been pretty heartbreaking for the parents with the fast apporaching new year just ard the corner so pls stop toying ard with yr lives yah?
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My friend died due to a incident also.
The last time the taxi got ramped by a car in the rear de.
So sad lo. its like only a few more days take O lvl cert liaoz. And she got like 14points.
Like wah liaoz. Got bright future but died so young =(
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