Teen dies after being flung from car in crash

[Highwaycode]

Carolyn Quek

Mon, Jan 21, 2008

The Straits Times

 

 

 

 

Teen dies after being flung from car in crash

 

A LATE-NIGHT crash between two cars along Mandai Road was so horrific that one of the vehicles was crushed beyond recognition and broke in two.

 

An hour later, at 1am on Saturday, front-seat passenger Kalkieswaran Elangowan was dead.

 

The 18-year-old had just completed his 'O' levels and planned to study marine engineering at a polytechnic here.

 

His driver, 19, was uninjured, but the 17-year-old sitting in the back seat fractured his left leg.

 

The woman driving the other car, a 24-year-old, suffered scratches on her chest.

 

A 52-year-old bus driver who wanted to be known only as Mr Ang saw the accident and told Shin Min Daily News that both vehicles were speeding towards Woodlands Road at the time.

 

The first car, which Mr Elangowan was in, mounted a kerb before hitting the tree, he said.

 

The car behind crashed into it before slamming into the tree as well.

 

Both passengers of the first car were apparently flung out on impact, Mr Ang said.

 

Mr Elangowan's distraught family members were there to identify his body at the mortuary on Sunday morning. He had an older brother a younger sister, and lived with his family at Petir Road in Bukit Panjang.

 

They said that they did not know who he was out with and where he was before the accident.

 

In a separate traffic accident on Saturday, a 38-year-old pedestrian was hit by a car along Boon Lay Way on Saturday evening.

 

Details of the accident are not clear but according to the police, Mr Yin Xiu Jian, a China national, suffered head injuries, scratches on his right elbow and a fractured right shin.

 

He was taken to the National University Hospital but was pronounced dead at about 10.10pm.

 

The driver, a Turkish man in his late 20s, is helping police with investigations.

[Highwaycode]

25 Aug 2007 (repost)

 

Two men died in a burning car along Sixth Avenue at about 4am on Saturday (25 August). STOMPer Tony Hew, who saw the car burst into flames and took this photo at 4.07am, said: "There was no chance for anyone in the car."

 

"Car went off the road at Sixth Avenue, hit a tree before landing in the

monsoon drain alongside it.

 

"It burst into flames almost immediately and there was no chance for anyone in the car," the STOMPer said in an email at 11am today.

 

STOMP contacted the Police, which said the vehicle hit the boundary wall of a housing unit along Sixth Avenue, in the direction of Holland Road.

 

The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said one man was found trapped in the driver seat and the other in the front passenger seat when rescuers arrived at the scene within seven minutes of a call about a car on fire.

 

It said the two men were pronounced dead at 4.35am.

The SCDF said it received a call about a car on fire at 4.02am.

 

"The SCDF responded with two fire bikes, one fire engine and one ambulance to a car fire along Sixth Avenue, towards Bukit Timah," it said at about 11am today.

 

"Upon arrival at the incident site at 4.09am, SCDF firefighters saw a car engulfed in flames and proceeded immediately to extinguish the fire.

 

"The fire was swiftly extinguished by SCDF within 5 minutes using 1 water jet and 2 impulse guns.

 

"SCDF firefighters found 2 male casualties trapped in the driver seat and the front passenger seat.

 

"They were extricated within 15 minutes. They were pronounced dead at scene by SCDF Paramedic at 4.35am."

 

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[Shull]

the 1st one..another case of drivers not knowing the limits of their car and themselves..

[Tatsit]

sad..

[Ronnchee]

Young punks don't know the limit !! 24 yr-old, Liping ??

[Icekitten]

Both drivers mounting kerb one after another and crashing into the same tree?

 

Sounds eerie for such a coincidence....

[Donut]

that road is known to be dirty.....

[Icekitten]

 

Shouldn't be her la. Can tell neither car is a Swift Sport.

[Sfrtuscani]

it is a a mit lancer glx... newspaper show the mit logo with the bumper...

[Shull]

seems like they racing each other..

[Rickster]

Yea, seems to be very very near to the spot whereby another mx5/mrs crashed a few months ago. Also burst into flames...

[Toyopet]

The lady was driving a Merc while the guys were in a Mit. Newspaper only indicates the make but not the model.

Edited January 22, 2008 by Toyopet

[Car5141]

Yup. Looking at the picture in the ST yesterday, the car in the foreground looks to be a Merc W140.

Note the shape of the "C" pillar , on the broken off section

...as well as the wing mirror and driver's door (laft ajar).

 

Incidentally, I think this is the same unfortunate model of car that crashed with a certain princess inside, at a Paris tunnel back in 1997.

 

What a shame...always thought that the W140 was as tough as they come...

You can build a big tough car, but you can't beat the laws of Physics!!!

[Neost]

Not the car lah. Is the driver... For some driver, given them a ray tor char also no use.

[Grizzily]

i happen to drove pass the accident area and really gives me the creeps....the atmosphere is totally ghostly...

[Gadgeter]

vehicles was crushed beyond recognition and broke in two.

 

To crash the car beyond recognition and broke into two. They must be speeding at very hugh speed.

[Icekitten]

Which car broke into two?