A former SMRT Trains officer that headed a team onto the train tracks, resulting in the death of two trainees who were killed in a train collision in March 2016, was jailed four weeks on Monday (12 March).
SMRT Trains assistant engineer Lim Say Heng, 48, pleaded guilty to one charge of causing the deaths of the trainees through a negligent act by failing to ensure that the necessary safety measures were in place, causing the train collide into the victims.
On 22 March 2016, the trainees were part of the team of 15 SMRT employees who were deployed to inspect a fault detected on the track between Pasir Ris station and Tampines station on the East-West MRT line.
Nasrulhudin Najumudin, 26, and Muhammad Asyraf Ahmad Buhari, 24, died when a train slammed into them as they were heading to the fault, some 190 metres from the Pasir Ris station platform.
Lim led the team onto the train tracks during traffic hours walked on a walkway that was parallel to the tracks.
He had failed to obtain the necessary approvals to impose what is known as a “0/0 code” to prevent trains from freely entering the tracks on which the team was working, prior to attending to the fault.
The prosecution sought a one-month jail term for Lim. Lim’s lawyer, Lee May Ling, sought a fine of $10,000 for her client.
An SMRT Trains director, 41-year-old Teo Wee Kiat was fined $55,000 for safety lapses in September last year while SMRT was fined $400,000 in February last year breaching the Workplace Safety and Health Act.
For causing death by a negligent act, Lim could have been jailed up to 2 years.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ex-smrt-e...dent-caused-death-two-trainees-082028778.html
