Driver killed by falling tree....

[Mustank]

Why you scold me

[Mrmilktooth]

looking at the picture look like Nissan Murano

confirmed HONDA .. accord perhaps?.. i saw on the news last night..

 

Its really sad and suay... RIP ..

[Happily1986]

 

Took it off Lianhe Zaobao. When i saw this picture, i couldn't help by feel that his demise was inevitable and that all things in Life is perhaps preordained. As we know the only segment(s) in the car that are designated as crushable zones to absorb kinetic damage is the boot and the bonnet. The heavy tree branch fell on the roof which is ironically part of the reinforced superstructure designed to protect occupants. i am not sure whether the damage took by the roof is greater than a would be damage sustained had the Freed say, flip on its side and then roll for a good many times.

 

RIP.

[Karoon]

Condolenses to the family and friends of the victim..

 

No worries.

In fact I seconded you.

 

When heard about the article, I was telling myself "some buggers in MCF sure start pointing fingers to gahmen liao".

 

See! 6 pages and less then 1 page of posters actually offered their condolenses.

 

don't fret...we are a nation of whiners with alot of negative energy....just read selectively.

 

true, the govt can't be responsible for every freak accident.

 

see, if they're just a bunch of guys working hard for the common folk, sincere, empathic to our woes, and for their troubles drawing an income people can relate to, then perhaps we will not vent our anger that easily.

 

 

but what we have in parliament house.....haiz....

 

well if they want out-of-this-world compensation, then at least we deserve out-of-this-world quality and standard of living.

is that too much to ask?

 

[Kklim]

The microburst 'explanation' is b-------t. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst microbursts do much more damage than fell a single tree. If it had been a microburst, roadsigns would have toppled, bus-stop roof would have blown off, roof tiles of nearby houses would have been flying, etc.

 

Are the pink things airbags? If they are, he must have seen the tree falling and braked real hard.

[Chelsea901]

Just got news from my kaki.

 

Car Honda Freed, black color, dead man - Chinese.

 

RIP.

 

saw the car while on the way home ytd, nice number plate :)

[Kingcopa]

confirmed HONDA .. accord perhaps?.. i saw on the news last night..

 

Its really sad and suay... RIP ..

Honda Freed

[Mooscenic]

Sending my condolences to this man's family. Such tragedy and unfortunate incident. My prayers goes out to his family and friends. God bless.

[So_nice]

this is indeed a freak accident. that tree is so damn big..cant understand why it could be uprooted.

 

to be frank, i really dunno how one can blame the gahmen for a fallen tree like this. unless its due to poor maintainence of course. but we all dunno the reason.

 

RIP to the deceased. amitabha.

[Sony]

The microburst 'explanation' is b-------t. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst microbursts do much more damage than fell a single tree. If it had been a microburst, roadsigns would have toppled, bus-stop roof would have blown off, roof tiles of nearby houses would have been flying, etc.

 

Are the pink things airbags? If they are, he must have seen the tree falling and braked real hard.

 

 

u mean brake hard, air bag will come out?

[Fishy]

The microburst 'explanation' is b-------t. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst microbursts do much more damage than fell a single tree. If it had been a microburst, roadsigns would have toppled, bus-stop roof would have blown off, roof tiles of nearby houses would have been flying, etc.

 

Are the pink things airbags? If they are, he must have seen the tree falling and braked real hard.

 

 

They are quite fast in determining the root cause of the incident, quite surprising within the same day, they can investigate and publish a statement identifying the root cause...

 

[Kingcopa]

They are quite fast in determining the root cause of the incident, quite surprising within the same day, they can investigate and publish a statement identifying the root cause...

they dun get paid millions for nothing

[Gearoil]

Why you scold me

 

Becos you speculate if that bugger in charge of the place ,didn't do this and if that bugger didn't do that!

 

What transplanting tree not safe?

 

The issue is simply that there are too many tress , overhanging and probably not maintained properly and some poor guy just got hit directly by it!...the island probably also got more ppl per sq km to the number of trees, compared to 10 to 15 years back.

 

Simple.

 

It just like when you start throwing a ball to see whether it hits the bulleye. which is a hole for the ball to go thru.

 

Give you a few balls and one hole , you probably would missed the hole and run out of balls to throw but give you a unlimited number of balls to throws, with more holes, as bull eye and you will surely hit a bull eye pretty soon.

 

So simple and yet you got to speculate on your transplanting theory.

 

You should ask the tree as to why it fell instead.

[Fishy]

they dun get paid millions for nothing

 

 

But i think they are too efficient in such an incident... i mean they must look at some data, analyse before conclude...

[Christan]

they dun get paid millions for nothing

 

They are not paid millions, Mr Yakult is but cannot solve the floods issue. Maybe can ask those people there to take over Mr Yakult's job. Definitely can't get any worse

[Mike1234]

They are not paid millions, Mr Yakult is but cannot solve the floods issue. Maybe can ask those people there to take over Mr Yakult's job. Definitely can't get any worse

 

Yakult not nice.....

 

I prefer Vitagen.... [laugh]

[Jamesgetz]

ya lor. I live in that area. Outside my place has this tree (small one) which was infested with termites before. And so they chop of half the tree and left half of the tree standing lopsided.

 

Crazy lah. That tree is totally useless. Little leaves, damn ugly (half tree) and they just refuse to cut it down when I called them last year.

 

I called them up again today and ask them if the tree fall down and hurt someone, who will be responsible?

 

you should drop them an email and save the sent email. next time if something bad happens, forward the email to the papers and shame the buggers...

[Mustank]

cannot like that say mah

 

you see ah, it was clear that this was an old tree and therefore not transplanted one

 

but generally and not pertaining to this incident, someone say that transplanting trees may not result in trees with deeper roots also may hold some truth to it so we should study whether this is indeed true for future tree planting excercise mah

 

if a study proves the thoery to be correct and we start planting trees on location, we will have safer trees in the future mah