AMK town council act blur after ill-maintained tree wrecks car

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Flood can be prevent if plan properly. Tree how? There no country in this world can prevent tree from unroof ot fall.
Sometime Sinkie just very unreasonable. Just claim the insurance using own car insurance that what insurance is for.
If cannot afford to pay full insurance after claim then don't driver I very happy if road have one less driver.

But least we forget, most of the trees here are grown in a 'nursery' which may be some unused State Land, then of a certain maturity, transplanted to which ever location they are suppose to be. It depends on the FT's to properly plant the trees. Yes, anyhwere else in the world we can't stop a tree from falling, but, remember we have TRANSPLANTED trees, shrubs etc. here. I don't think we are unreasonable to find out, who is reposnsible.

Nparks, should be responsible...but we forget that they are some sort of god's too!:p You knock down that tree, see if they are reasonable to tell you that, oh!, it is an act of God...you will get a summon for S$5,000 to replace one tree. Reasonable, ??

 

[Rogue Trader]

Re: B.C. finds the Ang Mo Kio Town Council 100% liable for the damages caused by fall

Blast from the past #1:

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[TD="class: bodytext_10pt, colspan: 3"]IN VIEW of the recent incidences of fallen trees due to heavy rains and strong winds resulting in injuries and traffic disruptions on the roads, Minister for National Development Mr Mah Bow Tan assures the public that the National Parks Board (NParks) is committed to minimising the risks of trees falling.

NParks is currently reviewing its tree management programme in response to increasingly unpredictable weather conditions and exploring new technology to aid in its assessment of the condition of trees, said Mr Mah at the second session of the Eleventh Parliament of Singapore.

Mr Mah added that forces of nature are beyond NParks' control, and even healthy trees and be uprooted by wind forces and sodden soil due to heavy rains as experienced in June.

However, as part of NParks' Streetscape Greenery Master Plan, roadside trees are progressively replaced with hardy species - those which are resilient to adverse weather conditions and grow well in Singapore's urban environment - where needed.In addition, storm-vulnerable species that grow in the wild are identified and replace where necessary, while weak or overgrown branches are removed through regular tree pruning.

Over the years, NParks' tree management programme has effectively reduced the number of tree failures by close to 70%, from about 3,100 cases in year 2000 to about 1,000 in 2009.

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[Rogue Trader]

Re: B.C. finds the Ang Mo Kio Town Council 100% liable for the damages caused by fall

Blast from the past #2.. This is a reminder of why NParks need to take their job seriously....


Tree crushes car, man dies
Driver dies as tree falls on his Honda Freed. The tree was uprooted due to a heavy shower. -AsiaOne

Tue, Jul 20, 2010
AsiaOne

SINGAPORE - A driver was crushed to death by a fallen raintree on Tuesday afternoon.
The incident happened along the junction of Thomson Hills Drive and Yio Chu Kang Road, a spokesperson for the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said.
The tree fell on a Honda Freed and killed the driver, 32-year-old Chua Loong Wai. It is reported that the car was moving at that time.
A microburst, a localized, powerful descending air draft column that produces damaging winds at high speed, had caused the tree to fall. Microbursts are also known to knock down fully grown trees.
The lone driver, who is married for six years and has a three-year-old daughter, was pronounced dead at around 2.50pm.
The SCDF spokesperson said: "We received a call at 2.07pm."
Said the spokesperson: "When we arrived we found that the man had already passed away.
"Two hydraulic spreader cutters were used to extricate the man."
Lianhe Wanbao reported that Mr Chua had set up a website development business with his secondary school friend just last year. He had also recently purchased his Honda Freed.
According to other local reports, another fallen tree had also fell along Upper Thomson Road on Tuesday. The tree blocked all three lanes of the road.
NPark's response
In a statement released by the national agency for maintaining trees, National Parks (NParks), preliminary inspection show that "the tree was uprooted due to severe weather conditions".
NParks also said that the tree was last pruned in January 2010 to reduce the weight of the crown.
Although this unfortunate accident may raise concerns about the safety of trees in Singapore, NParks wanted to assure the public that inspection has been stepped up in the past two months.
Mr Ng Lang, CEO of NParks, said that they are "deeply saddened by the death of Mr Chua" and are currently in touch with the family of the deceased.
Police have classified the case as an unnatural death and are investigating.