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ya vios... somemore that rich kid was just testing it for fun as his dad has already bought him another car.

The sales girl was actually leaving to meet her bf to attend a wedding dinner, but her colleague asked her to help and she did.

i think the colleague muz be feeling 'lucky' on one hand But guilty on another.
 
good morning all...

doll, cannot bang on the govenerment stuff..
you pay even more...
they fine...
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Want to know the worst of him? A month or so after her unfortunate death, he enquired in car forums on his next-target sports car.....

Well, his identify somehow got found out and was slammed throughout the forum and eventually, was in the newspaper.

Oh ya, i wonder how is he doing? Still buying his 3rd,4th car maybe?
 
If one tree costs that much, good luck to the drivers who take it out on ERP gantries...

For one gantry, the possible loss of revenue is approximately $4215 per day (conservative figure).

Really best of luck!
 
Edit: it's 18months later and he's getting another car... whilst the case was still under investgaition.

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Article from Straits Times 4 April 2007

Driver crashes test car, sales exec dies
# MARCH 21, 2007: Now he's shopping for these hot wheels

Netizens outraged that he's shopping for another fast car while still under probe over fatal test-drive
By Christopher Tan, Senior Correspondent

ONLINE forums used by the community of car enthusiasts have been aflame lately.

The target of their ire: the young man who got into an accident while test-driving a Mazda MX-5 in October 2005, which caused the death of the Mazda sales executive seated beside him.

These netizens are worked up because the said young man is - just 18 months later - shopping for a new high-performance car in an apparently nonchalant fashion.

Mr Regan Lee, 26, declared in a posting on mycarforum.com on March 21 that he was undecided between a Volkswagen Golf GTI and a Subaru WRX STI-S.

'Really in a dilemma at the moment,' he wrote. 'Would really like to own the GTI, but an extra $10k in car price would mean i gotta eat less every month ...lol...What you guys think?' ('lol' stands for 'laughing out loud' in online forum parlance.)

Discussions had begun on a cordial note, with forum participants offering their personal assessments of the GTI and the WRX.

Soon enough, someone recalled that Mr Lee was the one at the wheel of the Mazda MX-5 in the crash that left 22-year-old sales executive Angelia He Xueli dead.

That was when civility went out the window.

'Put him behind bars,' went the posting by Hamster Fest.

Legendkiller declared: 'He can run but he cannot hide. I will do my best to ensure that he does not get to drive another car again.'

The online attack spilled into other online forums such as Hardwarezone.

In the latter, the discussion thread in the current affairs section pulled in a whopping 63,000 views - more than 50 times the average number that other topics in the section attract.

On the day of the accident, Mr Lee took a $110,000 Mazda MX-5 convertible for a test-drive.

Barely five minutes into the drive, while along Upper Paya Lebar Road, Mr Lee lost control of the MX-5, a car known for its above-par road-holding.

The car flew over the divider, smashed head-on into a black BMW, flipped over it and came crashing down onto a van on another lane.

He was unhurt, but Ms He died an hour later in hospital.

Mr Lee was arrested but was released on bail.

He has not been charged to this day, and police said yesterday that investigations were still being carried out.

Since the accident, Upper Paya Lebar Road has been repaved and realigned. Mazda Motor (Singapore) has received an insurance payout for the badly crushed MX-5, which is believed to have been scrapped.

Mr Lee could not be contacted for comment.

Hardwarezone member James Ng, 25, when asked why he thought forum participants have come down so hard on Mr Lee, said it probably had to do with the perception that justice had not been served, and that 'he still has his driving licence and he still poses a danger to others'.

Mr Ng, an undergraduate at SIM University, said forum posters were assuming Mr Lee was responsible for the accident.

He added that people also had not forgotten that it cost the life of a young woman.

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NETIZENS SAY

'He can run but he cannot hide. I will do my best to ensure that he does not get to drive another car again.'
LEGENDKILLER

'He still has his driving licence and he still poses a danger to others.'
MR JAMES NG
 
Regan Lee jailed for crashing test-drive car, killing sales executive
By Dominique Loh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 24 October 2007 1829 hrs


SINGAPORE: Regan Lee Da Wen, 26, was initially charged with causing the death of a salesperson while test-driving a Mazda MX-5 sports car. But he has since pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of committing a rash act.

Lee, on Wednesday, was disqualified from driving for 10 years and sentenced to seven months in jail.

The case had dragged on for more than two years amid public outcry over Lee's action.

According to court documents, Lee was driving at a speed of more than 90 kilometres on 29 October 2005 along Upper Paya Lebar Road – nearly twice the legal speed limit for that stretch of road.

It is believed that Lee had lost control of the car while negotiating a bend.

Veering to the right, he crossed the centre divider, crashing head-on into an oncoming car.

The impact flipped the Mazda before hitting another vehicle, killing 22-year-old Mazda sales executive Angelia He Xueli.

Lee escaped unhurt.

His case was supposed to have gone to trial with the original charge of causing Ms He's death, which carries a heavier penalty. But the case never went to open court and was adjourned several times.

During that time, it is believed the prosecution and defence teams came to an agreement to an amended lesser charge with Lee pleading guilty in court.
 
Max. jail term of 2 yrs and a lifetime driving ban would be most appropriate...

A young girl's life jus gone like that because of his unnecessary reckless-ness on a testdrive.
 
got lah... maybe,during the initial days which were way back in 2005?

personally, i would ban myself at looking another car and even driving if i was him.
 
Vios,

I got no experience lah...
my auntie told me one...
if wanna bang, dun bang government property..
sure broke lor...

that reckless driver so bad...
The victim was my friend's friend...
so poor thing leh...

green, that man wont feel guilty lor...
he's still test -driving other new cars...

haiz....
 
tat time our bbq was also raining... uncle dragon and meng were holding the umbrella... so cute.. keke.. den maybe next yr summer time then bbq bah.. safer...
 
Are you guys keen on Sunset Way? There are sevaral restaurants there.

There is also a Hilltop HK Cafe at Sembawang Cottage. Cheap and good.

How, how?
 
How about Cuppage Terrace in Cuppage Road? A whole host of new restaurants and pubs have just started operations there. Cuppage Road is centrally located.
 

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