The 73-year-old taxi driver blocked the blows with his right hand and used his left hand to control the steering wheel. He also used his mobile phone to alert the police.
An intoxicated man was riding in a taxi shortly before midnight on Feb 4, 2022, after a drinking session when he started punching the elderly cabby in an unprovoked attack.
Taxi driver Chor Kin Yong, 73, had picked Chen up in his vehicle shortly before the attack and was entering a Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway tunnel when the younger man started punching his head and neck. Police arrived at the scene soon after. Senior Staff Sergeant Wong Chuen Kit was driving Chen to the Bedok police headquarters when he was kicked twice by the offender.
But the DPPs noted that the elderly cabby had been strapped to his seat while driving through the KPE tunnel, while Chen was sitting in the rear without a seatbelt on.
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