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</TR><!-- headline one : end --><TR>Subaru snaps into two - landing 3m apart - in Guillemard Road crash </TR><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Esther Tan & Kimberly Spykerman
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The wrecked Subaru WRX at the accident scene. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A CAR snapped into two after it slammed into a tree in Guillemard Road late on Thursday night, killing two best friends who were in it.
The impact tore the bark off the tree and lodged the back half of the red Subaru WRX against another tree, while its front sat 3m away on the sidewalk.
The car engine also burst into flames but the fire was put out by the Singapore Civil Defence Force in five minutes.
The driver, Mr Kerk Teck Guan, and his passenger, Mr Ng Wei Liang, suffered multiple injuries and both died 1 1/2 hours later in hospital.
The accident happened between Lorongs 12 and 14 in Geylang, before the horrified eyes of their friends who were in two other cars behind them. The crash also drew a large crowd to the scene.
The group of friends had gone to Geylang for supper earlier that night.
The dead men were both 26 and had been friends for more than 14 years.
Mr Ng, a sales executive at Courts, owned a car of the same model which had been involved in an accident along the Pan-Island Expressway three weeks ago. The car is now in the workshop.
He was lucky not to have been hurt then, when the car spun, said his grieving widow Angeline Ang, 26, last night. The couple were married for five years and have a five-year-old daughter.
She said his friends told her Mr Kerk had swerved to avoid hitting a cyclist.
The men were car buffs who enjoyed modifying their vehicles, sometimes to her disapproval, she said.
She last saw her husband before he left for work on Thursday morning.
Shortly before midnight, she received a call to tell her about the accident from a friend who was at the scene. 'I thought he was joking. But when I couldn't get through to Wei Liang's mobile phone, I knew something bad had happened.'
Yesterday, a group of four brightly coloured Subaru WRX cars made its way from Mr Kerk's wake in Choa Chu Kang to Mr Ng's, a few streets away.
Mr Kerk's distraught mother wept uncontrollably. Two of his friends said Mr Kerk was very close to his parents and younger sister, and still lived with them despite getting married last year.
A colleague said of the Komoco Motors salesman: 'He was very hardworking and our sales team is very close. We're very sad to have lost such a good man.'
Mr Ng's widow, Madam Ang, wishes things had gone differently that night. Though she does not blame Mr Kerk, she said: 'If he hadn't gone out with them, this wouldn't have happened.'
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The wrecked Subaru WRX at the accident scene. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->A CAR snapped into two after it slammed into a tree in Guillemard Road late on Thursday night, killing two best friends who were in it.
The impact tore the bark off the tree and lodged the back half of the red Subaru WRX against another tree, while its front sat 3m away on the sidewalk.
The car engine also burst into flames but the fire was put out by the Singapore Civil Defence Force in five minutes.
The driver, Mr Kerk Teck Guan, and his passenger, Mr Ng Wei Liang, suffered multiple injuries and both died 1 1/2 hours later in hospital.
The accident happened between Lorongs 12 and 14 in Geylang, before the horrified eyes of their friends who were in two other cars behind them. The crash also drew a large crowd to the scene.
The group of friends had gone to Geylang for supper earlier that night.
The dead men were both 26 and had been friends for more than 14 years.
Mr Ng, a sales executive at Courts, owned a car of the same model which had been involved in an accident along the Pan-Island Expressway three weeks ago. The car is now in the workshop.
He was lucky not to have been hurt then, when the car spun, said his grieving widow Angeline Ang, 26, last night. The couple were married for five years and have a five-year-old daughter.
She said his friends told her Mr Kerk had swerved to avoid hitting a cyclist.
The men were car buffs who enjoyed modifying their vehicles, sometimes to her disapproval, she said.
She last saw her husband before he left for work on Thursday morning.
Shortly before midnight, she received a call to tell her about the accident from a friend who was at the scene. 'I thought he was joking. But when I couldn't get through to Wei Liang's mobile phone, I knew something bad had happened.'
Yesterday, a group of four brightly coloured Subaru WRX cars made its way from Mr Kerk's wake in Choa Chu Kang to Mr Ng's, a few streets away.
Mr Kerk's distraught mother wept uncontrollably. Two of his friends said Mr Kerk was very close to his parents and younger sister, and still lived with them despite getting married last year.
A colleague said of the Komoco Motors salesman: 'He was very hardworking and our sales team is very close. We're very sad to have lost such a good man.'
Mr Ng's widow, Madam Ang, wishes things had gone differently that night. Though she does not blame Mr Kerk, she said: 'If he hadn't gone out with them, this wouldn't have happened.'
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