‘We miss her laugh, her warmth’: Family, friends remember NUS undergrad Kathy Ong, who died in a taxi crash

[chittychitty]

“She said, 'Daddy, we don’t need a bigger house. We only need a home'. That was what Kathy was like.”

SINGAPORE: “It’s difficult to cope. At the start, I really couldn’t sleep,” said Kathy Ong’s mum Jacqueline Ng, describing the loss of her 19-year-old daughter after a taxi driver’s negligent actions caused her death.

“I feel that what is missing is all her laughter. When she was at home, she laughed a lot,” Jacqueline recalled. “We don’t know what we’re going to do moving forward, without her.”

Taxi driver Yap Kok Hua was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail and banned from driving for five years on Aug 2, but for Kathy’s family, it is a life sentence.
Her parents Jacqueline and Keith feel the pain of losing Kathy as strongly as the day she died on Apr 19 last year.

She had been in a taxi with three friends, going from Clementi to the National University of Singapore (NUS), where they were studying.

Yap decided to make a discretionary right turn from Commonwealth Avenue West into Clementi Road despite seeing a car coming towards him.

The other driver Ng Li Ning - who has since been charged with dangerous driving - was going at a speed between 92kmh and 97kmh, a court heard, but Yap decided to try and clear the junction.

He did not, and the collision threw Kathy out of her seat. She suffered serious injuries, together with three others in the taxi. One of them suffered a brain injury, and the other was left in a vegetative state after the smash. All four were rushed to hospital.

Jacqueline said she vividly remembered the moment she received a call from Kathy’s friend.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...xi-driver-yap-kok-hua-crash-clementi-11813398

 

[glockman]

“She said, 'Daddy, we don’t need a bigger house. We only need a home'. That was what Kathy was like.”
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SINGAPORE: “It’s difficult to cope. At the start, I really couldn’t sleep,” said Kathy Ong’s mum Jacqueline Ng, describing the loss of her 19-year-old daughter after a taxi driver’s negligent actions caused her death.

“I feel that what is missing is all her laughter. When she was at home, she laughed a lot,” Jacqueline recalled. “We don’t know what we’re going to do moving forward, without her.”

Taxi driver Yap Kok Hua was sentenced to eight weeks’ jail and banned from driving for five years on Aug 2, but for Kathy’s family, it is a life sentence.
Her parents Jacqueline and Keith feel the pain of losing Kathy as strongly as the day she died on Apr 19 last year.

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She had been in a taxi with three friends, going from Clementi to the National University of Singapore (NUS), where they were studying.

Yap decided to make a discretionary right turn from Commonwealth Avenue West into Clementi Road despite seeing a car coming towards him.

The other driver Ng Li Ning - who has since been charged with dangerous driving - was going at a speed between 92kmh and 97kmh, a court heard, but Yap decided to try and clear the junction.

He did not, and the collision threw Kathy out of her seat. She suffered serious injuries, together with three others in the taxi. One of them suffered a brain injury, and the other was left in a vegetative state after the smash. All four were rushed to hospital.

Jacqueline said she vividly remembered the moment she received a call from Kathy’s friend.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...xi-driver-yap-kok-hua-crash-clementi-11813398

Feel sad for her parents. RIP Kathy.

 

[mudhatter]

Don't tell me the stupid taxi driver was another slit eyed heathen chink

 

[sweetiepie]

Feel sad for her parents. RIP Kathy.

Yes indeed sad for the parents KNN kathy rook very adorable sweet guai child for any parents to have KNN

 

[sam heng]

Blood in hands of those who hired this taxi uncle despite his previous cases.

 

[Leongsam]

Don't tell me the stupid taxi driver was another slit eyed heathen chink

There are bad drivers amongst all races and creeds. There is no need for your racist shit here.

 

[mudhatter]

There are bad drivers amongst all races and creeds. There is no need for your racist shit here.

Nothing beats the chinks when it comes to poor driving.

https://medium.com/@amanlitt/all-as...cious-bias-and-racial-stereotypes-5c3a83310a8

Asian

people do not know how to drive.

Asian = slit eyed chinks in the USA.

 

[glockman]

Yes indeed sad for the parents KNN kathy rook very adorable sweet guai child for any parents to have KNN

Fate, destiny, karma or whatever you call it, they make pitiful fools of us all. Promising youngsters with great potential and moral values die, yet those useless scum losers get to live on and on, and leech off their parents and society.

 

[Leepotism]

Both drivers are charged. Taxi driver jailed , the other driver charged with dangerous driving. A young life was taken away because of them. RIP Kathy.

 

[steffychun]

Another NUS place open for FT!

 

[laksaboy]

What a waste. She could have been a virgin.

The discretionary right turn is a stupid traffic rule, implemented by stupid people.

 

[laksaboy]

Another NUS place open for FT!

Maybe she should have gone to NTU... less intense traffic there.

"Kukubird ah kukubird, come suck limpeh kukubird!"

 

[Leongsam]

This proves that cars are way more dangerous than PMDs.

 

[steffychun]

Maybe she should have gone to NTU... less intense traffic there.

"Kukubird ah kukubird, come suck limpeh kukubird!"

NTU full of PRCs and Indonesians.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Heartbreaking

 

[KuanTi01]

There are bad drivers amongst all races and creeds. There is no need for your racist shit here.

A bad driver is a bad driver. For all we care, he or she may be from Mars!

 

[mojito]

This proves that cars are way more dangerous than PMDs.

Disagree. If she had her own car, she would be much safer and not wind up dead!

 

[sweetiepie]

This proves that cars are way more dangerous than PMDs.

KNN it proves that lta and tp should be VERY stringent in issuing a driving licence KNN at least 50% or more needs to have their license revoked KNN and tp should replaced all the teeko ah pek driving test officers and remove the right discretionary turn and last but not least to disallow foreign license to be converted without going through the practical test KNN this includes all types of license KNN with all this in place the number of rta should reduced to almost nil except gods plan type KNN

 

[laksaboy]

Disagree. If she had her own car, she would be much safer and not wind up dead!

If she drove like Ma Chi who's hurrying to take her lover to the nearest hotel, all bets are off.

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN it proves that lta and tp should be VERY stringent in issuing a driving licence KNN at least 50% or more needs to have their license revoked KNN and tp should replaced all the teeko ah pek driving test officers and remove the right discretionary turn and last but not least to disallow foreign license to be converted without going through the practical test KNN this includes all types of license KNN with all this in place the number of rta should reduced to almost nil except gods plan type KNN

KNN not sure if Kathy's parent is aware of this lah KNN they might be blaming the taxi drivers and fate KNN but the actual party to blame is tp aka pap KNN becas tp/lta is the 1 to issue the invalid license to taxi drivers just to account to pap for the unemployed and just becas sinkieland needs many sai kang so tp issue invalid license to foreign workers KNN