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PRC bus driver fine $5K for killing SG

makapaaa

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Author: Your Correspondent

http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/05/06/prc-bus-driver-fined-5000-only-for-killing-singaporean-in-traffic-accident/

A former PRC bus driver was let off with only a $5,000 fine and banned from driving for three years for causing the death of a Singaporean scooterist Mr Oh Yam Seng.
33 year old Zhou Yunpeng, a Singapore PR admitted to causing the death of Mr Oh by failing to give way to him when he made a right turn from Ang Mo Kio Ave 5 into Ave 8 last year, the Straits Times report.
It is not revealed how Mr Zhou managed to obtain his Singapore PR. He told the judge that he had been driving the bus for only one and a half months before the accident.
Though bus drivers are jobs which can be taken up by Singaporeans, there is an increasing number of PRC bus drivers in Singapore, some of whom are unfamiliar with the bus routes and are unable to speak even simple English.
A Sichuan newspaper reported two months ago of a Singapore bus company putting up job ads in Chengdu to recruit PRC bus drivers to work in Singapore. (read article here)
The applicants must have a Chinese class “A” driver and three years of driving experience of public transport in China. On top of the attractive wages, they are also given free lodging, transport allowances and medical insurance coverage.
During the recent May Day Rally, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called on Singaporeans to accept a higher “inflow” of foreigners as the economy “improves”.
Singaporeans should prepare themselves for more PRC bus drivers like Mr Zhou Yunpeng. As for the non-Chinese, it is time to pick up some simple Mandarin in order to communicate with these “foreign talents” from mainland China.

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Author: Your Correspondent

http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/05/06/prc-bus-driver-fined-5000-only-for-killing-singaporean-in-traffic-accident/

A former PRC bus driver was let off with only a $5,000 fine and banned from driving for three years for causing the death of a Singaporean scooterist Mr Oh Yam Seng.
33 year old Zhou Yunpeng, a Singapore PR admitted to causing the death of Mr Oh by failing to give way to him when he made a right turn from Ang Mo Kio Ave 5 into Ave 8 last year, the Straits Times report.
It is not revealed how Mr Zhou managed to obtain his Singapore PR. He told the judge that he had been driving the bus for only one and a half months before the accident.
Though bus drivers are jobs which can be taken up by Singaporeans, there is an increasing number of PRC bus drivers in Singapore, some of whom are unfamiliar with the bus routes and are unable to speak even simple English.
A Sichuan newspaper reported two months ago of a Singapore bus company putting up job ads in Chengdu to recruit PRC bus drivers to work in Singapore. (read article here)
The applicants must have a Chinese class “A” driver and three years of driving experience of public transport in China. On top of the attractive wages, they are also given free lodging, transport allowances and medical insurance coverage.
During the recent May Day Rally, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called on Singaporeans to accept a higher “inflow” of foreigners as the economy “improves”.
Singaporeans should prepare themselves for more PRC bus drivers like Mr Zhou Yunpeng. As for the non-Chinese, it is time to pick up some simple Mandarin in order to communicate with these “foreign talents” from mainland China.

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I was nearly knocked down by a right turning vehicle when I first came to China. I realised later that vehicles can still make a right turn on red light and they won't give way to pedestrians. They have zebra crossings painted on the roads but they are for show only. I bet this PRC bus driver was day dreaming of his hometown when he knocked down that poor guy........
 

Cuntamania

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Wow lau!!! DO YOU Singapore bus company know how these PRC driver drive???? For the two years here Shenzhen China, i have seen PRC bus drivers involved in accidents that results in more death than just injuries. They don't give way, stop any where they want, they even stop in the middle of the road and without signalling switches lane. Worse here in China is left hand drive not right hand drive. KNN if they somemore LHL/PAP say got job for us. PAY peanuts get monkeys lah! WTF
 

Brightkid

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Wonder who gets to keep te fines in such and any cases imposed by the court.

Does the victim get anything at all ? (I doubt so unless they sue for damages?).
 
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