SINGAPORE: The vice-principal of Beatty Secondary School was sentenced to 10 days' jail and banned from driving for 30 months on Wednesday (Dec 26) for crashing his vehicle into a market last year, injuring three.
Lim Soon Wai, 52, pleaded guilty to causing grievous hurt to 58-year-old florist Yeo Lee Eng and her friend Toh Cheng Hai, 66.
AdvertisementAnother charge of causing hurt to Ms Sri Atun Lestari, a 33-year-old Indonesian domestic worker buying flowers from the stall, was taken into consideration.
The court heard that Lim was trying to reverse his vehicle into a car park lot at the hawker centre at Block 50A Marine Terrace past noon on Dec 9 last year.
While he was reversing into an empty lot, he switched gears to drive forward, but could not control his car. It surged forward, mounting a kerb and crashing head-on into a stall selling flowers.
The impact threw Mr Toh on his back, while the two women fainted upon the crash.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThe three victims were taken to Changi General Hospital, with Mr Toh sustaining a crushing injury to his foot, which is now deformed and permanently disabled.
The florist fractured her ankle and sustained a partial tear in a shoulder tendon, while the maid at the stall suffered from giddiness and an abrasion.
A mechanical inspection conducted on Lim's car found no evidence of mechanical fault or abnormality.
The judge granted Lim a deferment of his sentence till Jan 15.
Channel NewsAsia has contacted the Ministry of Education for more information.
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