Man fined, banned from driving for negligence
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 08 February 2011 2207 hrs
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SINGAPORE: A motorist was on Tuesday fined S$9,000 for a negligent act that killed former national athlete Tan Eng Yoon.
Thirty-three-year-old safety supervisor Mohammed Iskandar Ariffin has also been disqualified from driving all classes of vehicles for five years.
He had failed to keep a proper lookout while driving his car along Upper Thomson Road at around 7am on January 30, last year.
Iskandar was driving at around 70 to 75 kilometres per hour -- above the designated speed limit of 60 kilometres per hour.
As a result, he hit 82-year-old Mr Tan who was walking home after attending morning mass at the nearby Church of the Holy Spirit.
The President of the Singapore Olympians Association was flung forward and suffered multiple injuries.
He died in Tan Tock Seng Hospital at 9.30am the next day.
Mr Tan is remembered as the athlete who clinched Singapore's first medal in the 400-metre hurdles during the inaugural South-East Asian Peninsular Games in 1959, the pre-cursor to the Southeast Asian or SEA Games.
He also won the gold medal in triple jump and his national record for this was unbroken for 32 years.
Mr Tan had represented Singapore in triple jump and the 100-metre sprint during the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
He was also the national track and field coach during the 1960s and 1970s, nurturing local sporting legends including sprinter C Kunalan.
In mitigation, the court heard that Iskandar was aware that Mr Tan's death had affected people all over Singapore.
He had apologised to Mr Tan's family and hoped to be given a second chance.
For causing the death, Iskandar could have been jailed up to two years, fined or both.
-CNA/wk
