Law Minister K Shanmugam and his wife experienced some reckless
drivers while driving on public roads yesterday. Shanmugam posted their
encounter on his Facebook page and within hours, his post has garnered many
comments from netizens and his post made news on TV yesterday night.
I have always feel that some drivers here in Singapore are
really very reckless as personally I and my family have encountered dangerous
situations involving vehicles almost hitting us though we obeyed traffic rules
and the traffic lights were in our favour in these instances. In one instance, I even witnessed a pedestrian
being flung off metres by a car –right in front of me- while he was using the
yellow pedestrian crossing correctly; it was such a close shave as the said
pedestrian was just in front of me!
Coincidentally, just
an hour or so before I saw the Shanmugam’s opinion piece on TV news, I also
experienced a close shave with a turning vehicle while I was using a pedestrian
crossing to cross the roads. In this incident, the driver of the turning
vehicle did not signal that he was turning and I was caught off-guard and had
to fasten my pace to avoid the unimaginable.
Though lives are precious, while victims of reckless driving
risk their lives and limbs in cases of incidents involving reckless driving,
reckless drivers just pay a small fine or get a small sentence. I have -ever
since my experience with reckless drivers- make no assumptions when crossing
the roads, be it when using traffic lights, junctions or not.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
K Shanmugam on reckless driving on Singapore’s Roads
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