At the time of the accident, Mr Alvin Wong had stopped reporting for urine tests despite being on drug supervision. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – The driver who died after crashing his rental car into the side of a public bus in Yishun in January had traces of three different drugs in his body, along with painkillers and sedatives.
At the time of the accident, Mr Wong had also stopped reporting for urine tests despite being on drug supervision for 16 months from March 2022.Investigations revealed that Mr Wong had misused a stranger’s identity to rent a vehicle from car-sharing firm GetGo. No further details were provided in court about how he obtained this information.
Mr Wong was driving a GetGo car along Yishun Central towards Yishun Avenue 3. At the junction, he ran a red light and collided into an SBS Transit bus service 117 travelling along Yishun Avenue 2 in the direction of Canberra Link. Seven passengers in the double-decker bus were injured as a result. Mr Wong was trapped in the driver’s seat and had to be rescued by Singapore Civil Defence Force officers using hydraulic rescue equipment. He was unconscious when taken to hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries at 11.45pm.
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