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TL;DR - As if driving with one hand on the wheel and the other on your phone, this Gojek driver decided to answer a call whilst driving on a wet and rainy day. To put the cherry on top of the cake, he was riding a paying passenger. Not quite smart of a move, mister. To answer the hypothetical question in the title: You should call the driver a biological mistake. Drivers like this do not deserve to be born. The lives of your passengers are literally in your hands! That's a huge responsibility! And what did the good ol’ Uncle Ben tell Peter Parker about responsibility? Watch this 30-second video to witness a severe lack of said responsibility: What happened? The private hire decided to make (or answer) a phone call whilst fetching a passenger. In the video, he sounded engrossed in the call while balancing the remaining bit of his attention span to watching the road and controlling the steering wheel. Regardless of how good a driver you are, using your mobile phone while driving is extremely dangerous. It's so dangerous that if you're caught, you could face jail time! BTT/FTT Refresher First time offender - imprisonment for a period up to 6 months or a fine up to $1000 (or both). Repeated offender - imprisonment for a period up to 12 months or a fine up to $2000 (or both). Let’s hear from the netizens: However, the comments section was split. Some were also defending the driver, noting that the passenger who filmed this could’ve simply asked the driver to not use his phone or at least use a Bluetooth headset instead. By posting this online, it might potentially cause the driver to lose his rice bowl. Moral of the story: Better be safe than sorry - one call could wreck it all. Put down the phone and drive safely. The call can wait, your life is more precious than anything else. ========= 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!

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/negligent-drivers-who/1345462.html SINGAPORE: Instead of a fine, the default starting sentence for motorists who cause death by negligent driving will now be a jail term of up to four weeks. This is before the extent of their negligence and other factors are taken into account, three High Court judges ruled in a landmark judgment issued Wednesday (Sep 3). However, such traffic death cases — which fall under Section 304A(b) of the Penal Code — will not carry an automatic custodial sentence as the court will examine the circumstances of each case. The sentencing benchmark for such offences was set out by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, who led a specially-constituted three-judge panel in hearing an appeal by prosecutors to impose jail time on a sleepy driver who killed one and injured 11 others. In upping her sentence from a S$10,000 fine to four weeks’ imprisonment, the judges agreed that Hue An Li, who did surveillance at a casino and had gone without sleep for 24 hours prior to the accident, had demonstrated egregious negligence. Detailing the grounds of what the judges called a “significant change in the law”, CJ Menon distinguished between rash and negligent driving in the written judgment. Different maximum penalties were prescribed for death caused by rashness and negligence, in amendments made to the Penal Code in 2008. Guys... be extra careful while driving. No more pay money and case close....

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/negligent-drivers-who/1345462.html?cid=FBSG Finally, stiffer laws for negligent driving that causes death