Sad Ending

After aftermath of the head-on crash with the wall at Keppel Club. Recap; last week, a mentally unsound guy carjacked a cab and crashed into a wall along Telok Blangah and Henderson Road at speeds in excess of 120kph!

Injuries include broken spine, mutiple skull fractures and open fractures at the knees. He had to be 'peeled' off from the dashboard and his seat. Imagine smashing a mosquito with your palms and removing it! The comparison is similar. Of course, to a medical certainty that it would have not been so bad had he applied the BRAKES!!! I cannot over-empathise the state at which he left this world. Again, the victim is mentally unstable.

Note that there is a break in the wall-clinging grass patch and the littered darkened patch on the walkway directly in front of the wall. The break was caused by the impact of the crash and the littered darkened patch was caused by his relatives burning offerings to applease his soul.

On the issue of motor-vehicular fatalities, come 31st August marks the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death. She died tragically after her Mercedes S600 struck a wall in a tunnel in Paris at 160kph. Her driver did applied the brakes but it was insufficient as she did not buckle up. She was 36.

In accidents involving speeds in excess of 100kph, the chances of survival are remote. We do not need any experts to tell us that. Again, live another day by staying within the speed limits. However, there are other accidental deaths of no fault of ours, like gas leaks in HDB flats...A 73yr old man was burnt to death after an explosion originally from a gas leak.