Talk about lucky escape..

[Nonpareil]

http://youtu.be/fmnABODVFl0

 

This guy on the bicycle must be thanking his lucky stars to escape unscathed from this accident.

 

This aside, looking at videos on youtube, russian and chinese drivers are insane!

[KumarB]

i can't see any traffic lights in this junction.

who right who wrong in this?red car or the truck?

[Vhtfhwlego]

i can't see any traffic lights in this junction.

who right who wrong in this?red car or the truck?

If you drive on the left side of the road, you give way to the right.

If you drive on the right side of the road, you give way to the left.

 

However, the dotted white lines at the middle of the junction = red car is on the main road which truck is from the side road.

Side road vehicles should always give way to the main road vehicles.

So, truck is wrong.

[Vega]

in their vocabulary, there is no such word as "defensive driving".

to them, the best defense is to attack.

[1fast1]

If you drive on the left side of the road, you give way to the right.

If you drive on the right side of the road, you give way to the left.

 

In Soviet Russia, left is right.

 

In post-Soviet Russia, nobody knows what's right any more.

[DavidOh]

I always thought cyclist must dismount their bicycle when they cross the zebra crossing

 

 

[Mustank]

i thot in russia, who got bigger guns is always right?

 

anyway russians very hard to kill one

Edited September 23, 2014 by Mustank

[Holdenutessv]

I always thought cyclist must dismount their bicycle when they cross the zebra crossing

 

 

 

That won't happen in Russia.

[Typhoonz]

I always thought cyclist must dismount their bicycle when they cross the zebra crossing

 

 

 

That's in theory... How many times have you seen a cyclist dismount and push their bikes across junctions and crossing?

 

We should be glad they even look at what is coming at them and not just cheong across without even looking...

 

In Soviet Russia, left is right.

 

In post-Soviet Russia, nobody knows what's right any more.

 

If you are armed, nobody can say you are wrong unless they have bigger guns...

[Optramagnum]

So heartwarming to see a dozen of helpers after the accident. Unlike in Sg, dozens will be just staring and taking photos, I guess. We really need to learn from the Ang Mos sometimes.

[13177]

It happened way too fast that the cyclist also don't know how to react and what had actually happened?! Luckily the cyclist escaped unhurt.

[Vhtfhwlego]

 

In Soviet Russia, left is right.

 

In post-Soviet Russia, nobody knows what's right any more.

Haha.

Either the one with bigger gun will be right or the one that drank the most vodka.

[Vid]

The truck driver also came out unhurt.

[Darthrevan]

I always thought cyclist must dismount their bicycle when they cross the zebra crossing

 

 

 

I'm pretty sure in Russia no one does

[Ktglfc]

http://youtu.be/fmnABODVFl0

 

This guy on the bicycle must be thanking his lucky stars to escape unscathed from this accident.

 

This aside, looking at videos on youtube, russian and chinese drivers are insane!

 

One word to sum up: "HENG"...

Must go bai bai

[Adrianli]

So heartwarming to see a dozen of helpers after the accident. Unlike in Sg, dozens will be just staring and taking photos, I guess. We really need to learn from the Ang Mos sometimes.

 

I disagree.

 

I think Singaporeans are compassionate too. Just look at the various accidents here that many rush to help :

 

- Female motorcyclist kena knock down by lorry on PIE

- Motorcyclist leg kena cut off by SMRT bus

- Siblings on motorcycle kena knocked off by car at Bukit Batok (recently)

 

 

I think in Russia, ppl go help and see what they can help themselves with the victims belongings.

[Thaiyotakamli]

[SuPerBoRed]

 

 

Robber caught after seven years

Chia had accidentally cut his wrist while fleeing the scene, leaving blood stains on the floor.

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NOV 12, 2016, 5:00 AM SGT

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He gets 33 months' jail after DNA match shows he robbed woman in 2008

Amir Hussain

 

A robber who stole more than $5,000 in cash and valuables from a woman at knifepoint while high on drugs appeared to have got away with the crime, for seven years.

Chia Hwa Beng accidentally cut his wrist while fleeing the scene at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Orchard Road in August 2008, leaving blood stains on the floor.

He was not identified as the culprit of the crime until police took his DNA sample in May last year.

Yesterday, Chia, now 50, was jailed for 33 months and fined $30,000, after he pleaded guilty to one charge each of robbery and assisting an unlicensed moneylender. Chia, who was at first charged with armed robbery, escaped the mandatory six strokes of the cane for his reduced charge as he is 50.

A district court heard that his victim, a 58-year-old woman, had accompanied her mother-in-law to a cardiology clinic at Mount Elizabeth Hospital on Aug 18, 2008.

 

At about 4pm, she left the clinic to use the toilet.

"At that time, Chia had consumed "ganja" (a street name for cannabis), and he was feeling desperate as he had large debts and his creditor was harassing him and asking him to pay up," said Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Chong Yong.

"When he saw the victim enter the female toilet on the 11th floor, he formed the intention to rob her and thus followed her into the female toilet and waited outside the cubicle she had entered."

When she opened the door, Chia pushed her and demanded for her belongings in Mandarin.

The victim pretended to faint, hoping that someone else would enter the toilet and help her.

As she lay on the toilet floor, Chia pulled at her handbag but she resisted. She then saw Chia holding a 13cm long stainless steel blade. Fearful, she gave him her $3,000 Rolex watch.

Chia also demanded her diamond ring, just as a nurse entered the toilet. Panicking, he snatched the woman's handbag containing $1,650 in cash and fled in a cab. The total value of the items he took was $5,580. He did not get the ring.

The court also heard that in April 2014, Chia's vocational taxi driver's licence was suspended for three months. "As he could not find any job during that time, he picked up gambling and would go to gamble on a ship three to four times a week," said DPP Chong.

He took loans from several loan sharks and racked up debts.

In June 2014, he agreed to help a loan shark carry out fund transfers using his bank account, in return for a lower interest rate on a loan. Between June and August that year, Chia allowed the loan shark to deposit money into his bank account, and would transfer the cash to other bank accounts as instructed.

The punishment for robbery is between two and 10 years' jail, with at least six strokes of the cane; and for assisting an unlicensed moneylender, for a first conviction, a fine of between $30,000 and $300,000, and up to four years' jail.

A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on November 12, 2016, with the headline 'Robber caught after seven years'. Print Edition | Subscribe

 

sibei heng... escape 7yrs.. by the time caught liao ..  cannot cane due to age..  

 

Edited November 15, 2016 by SuPerBoRed