Singapore: A 40-year-old Indian public in Singapore has been condemned to 10 months in prison for wildly driving a truck and causing the demise of an old lady, a media report said on Thursday.
Sivalingam Suresh on Wednesday confessed to one charge of driving a truck without due care and consideration and hitting a 79-year-old Chinese-beginning lady who was strolling across a zebra crossing in Singapore in February this year, The Waterways Times paper revealed.
He thoughtlessly drove the vehicle and hit the lady following which she experienced a head injury and passed on around the same time, the court was educated.
Following the condemning, Suresh, who has a past filled with wayward driving, will likewise be precluded from holding or getting all classes of driving licenses for a considerable length of time after his delivery.
Representative Public Examiner Benedict Teong said Suresh neglected to see the lady as he moved toward a zebra crossing close by Ngee Ann Elementary School, slamming into her.
There was no proof to recommend that the conceivable mechanical disappointment of the truck might have caused or added to the mishap, the investigator said.
DPP Teong requested that the court sentence Suresh to 10 to 11 months in prison and force a driving boycott of eight years.
He refered to Suresh’s set of experiences of driving offenses, which included impolite driving and inability to adjust to a red light.
For causing demise by driving a vehicle without due care and consideration, Suresh might have been imprisoned for as long as three years and fined up to 10,000 Singapore dollars.
