Senior staff nurse Lucinia Wong Hang Yee was making her way to work at Changi General Hospital in the morning of May 15 — but she didn't make it to her shift that day.
She was fatally run down by an SBS bus near Punggol Bus Interchange.
The bus driver who hit her — 30-year-old Malaysian Firdaus Norahim — was sentenced to two months in jail and disqualified from driving for five years after pleading guilty to one count of causing death by a negligent act, The New Paper reports.
At 6.45am that morning, he was driving an off-service SBS bus out of Punggol Bus Interchange and made a right turn into a pedestrian crossing. He failed to see 30-year-old Wong crossing the road and failed to brake in time, hitting the right side of her body.
She later died at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, where doctors found multiple severe injuries including skull fractures, internal bleeding, ruptured liver and other fractures in her ribs and limbs.
In court, the prosecution pushed for a two-month custodial sentence over Firdaus' blatant disregard for the pedestrian's right of way, and that he should have been used to the busy road conditions as a bus driver.
Wong leaves behind a husband and a young child.
Photo: SBS Transit
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Senior staff nurse Lucinia Wong Hang Yee was making her way to work at Changi General Hospital in the morning of May 15 — but she didn't make it to her shift that day.
She was fatally run down by an SBS bus near Punggol Bus Interchange.
The bus driver who hit her — 30-year-old Malaysian Firdaus Norahim — was sentenced to two months in jail and disqualified from driving for five years after pleading guilty to one count of causing death by a negligent act, The New Paper reports.
At 6.45am that morning, he was driving an off-service SBS bus out of Punggol Bus Interchange and made a right turn into a pedestrian crossing. He failed to see 30-year-old Wong crossing the road and failed to brake in time, hitting the right side of her body.
She later died at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, where doctors found multiple severe injuries including skull fractures, internal bleeding, ruptured liver and other fractures in her ribs and limbs.
In court, the prosecution pushed for a two-month custodial sentence over Firdaus' blatant disregard for the pedestrian's right of way, and that he should have been used to the busy road conditions as a bus driver.
Wong leaves behind a husband and a young child.
Photo: SBS Transit
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