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TL;DR- Police car made illegal U-turn, facebook comments are wrong The comments section are once again alight with intelligent debate (swearing and accusations) and civilised discourse (putting down others and placing yourself as the superior person). Just another day on Facebook. What happened? On 23 March, 9,36p.m, a cam car caught a police car making an illegal U-turn at Braddell Flyover. Cue shocked gasps. You can even hear the cam car driver say “What the…” when the police car cut him off in the footage. However, Facebook says otherwise, with many comments defending the police car and saying it is the cam car’s fault. But are they actually right? The confusing road of Braddell Flyover This is the road that the cam car and police car was on in the video. As we can see, the road signs both have arrows indicating that drivers on this lane need to go right. However, why is this so? Seems redundant to have two lanes to go in the same direction. Besides this, the two cars in front of the cam and police car went in the same direction, and not the one indicated on the road, i.e straight. So are they wrong as well? They aren’t. The police car really is in the wrong. This is because all parties are really turning right, but to a different degree of right. Here’s a diagram from another Facebook user to explain, with arrows indicating what car was going where. The police car was actually making a U-turn, but was in the wrong lane to do so. Furthermore, there was no U-turn sign visible. The cam car was not in the wrong as they would be allowed to drive “straight”, and the police car should have been in the cam car’s lane too in order to execute that turn LEGALLY. In conclusion, police car confirm wrong. Writer's thoughts: I think this might be my longest post so far so please share. ========= Be the first to get the latest road/ COE news and get first dibs on exclusive promos and giveaways in our Telegram SGCM Community. Join us today!

Since when? I saw the 80KPH sign I was a little surprised. Always thought it's 90KPH.

me guilty as charge

I thought all vehicles/road users are subject to the same rules. Noticed one exception on the road today... are they really exempt from: 1/ COE + 10 year to scrap 2/ road tax 3/ windows tinting rules?

I been driving for more than a decade. This question is always on my mind... At junctions where there are left turn arrows, the left turn arrow will always coming up when the round lights are red. See below. When the left turn arrow blinks and disappears, the round lights will carry on being red for 2 secs before turning green. Happens at all junctions. Question is this. In that 2 secs, can I turn left?

The above video is reportedly to be captured in Russia. It shows a shapely young lady in an outfit that is more suitable for her wedding night riding on the boot of a Mercedes E-Class. Her compromising position and body movements are bound to attract the attention of other motorists. But I guess most male drivers ain

It was a Thursday evening and I was on my way home, sitting on a bus along Eunos Link. I was looking out at the traffic with a tired mind after a long day at work and suddenly, this uncle cyclist caught my attention. Initially, he was at the front of a traffic junction with the rest of the drivers and motorcyclists. When the traffic lights turned green, he cycled as fast as he could to keep up with the petrol powerplants beside him. The traffic is always quite busy on a weekday evening along Eunos Link and the rest of the road users were trying their best to avoid him. I did some research and understand that cyclists are allowed on the Singapore road by law. However, an example of an act by this uncle is truly dangerous. He has become a road hazard to himself and other motorists. He could have cycled along the side of the road rather than at the middle of the traffic. I could not imagine the consequences if he accidentally fell off his bicycle or a car hits him by accident. In Chinese, there is a saying that for a cyclist, the human body covers the metal while for a driver, the metal covers the human body. It is a no brain'er question on who is at the losing end when these two collides. I suppose excercising some common sense is more important than what the law says. I hope that this uncle arrived safely at his destination on that Thursday evening.