SBS bus driver arrested for drink-driving Leong Wee Keat weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg
An SBS Transit bus captain was arrested - and subsequently sacked - for drink driving, after the bus he was driving crashed into a lamp-post yesterday morning.
This is the first drink-driving incident involving one of its bus captains, said SBS Transit, which has since terminated the services of the driver.
The Service 145 bus was travelling along Victoria Street, towards Kallang, when the accident happened at 9.30am.
Witnesses told Today that the bus was travelling in the bus lane opposite Raffles Hospital when it mounted a kerb and crashed into the lamp-post.
Four passengers were believed to be on board, but no one was injured.
The driver, a man in his mid-30s, is out on bail. If charged and convicted of drink driving, he could be fined between $1,000 and $5,000, or jailed six months and banned from driving for at least a year.
SBS Transit spokesperson Tammy Tan said the company is "appalled" by the incident and added: "We take a very serious view of this and have decided to sack the bus captain as a warning to other bus captains."
SBS Transit currently operates 2,800 of the 3,500 public buses here.
The damaged lamp-post was later replaced.
In the first quarter of this year, 920 people were arrested for drink-driving, 22 per cent more than the same period last year.
In the high profile drink-driving case involving actor Christopher Lee, who was released from jail recently, High Court Judge Lee Seiu Kin called drink driving a "social menace".
Justice Lee said he wanted to send a "sobering chill down the spines" of potential drink drivers last month when he extended Lee's original jail term of a month by another two weeks. He also said the tendency of the courts to merely impose fines for first-time offenders ought to stop. - TODAY
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15/7/07
SBS 2787B (48 ARBP) was involved in a accident, knocking down someone at Serangoon Road/Bukit Timah Road
Man dies in bus accident at junction in front of Tekka Mall
SINGAPORE: A man died after he was knocked down by a bus at the junction of Serangoon Road and Bukit Timah Road, in front of Tekka Mall on Sunday afternoon.
Police were called to the scene just before 12 noon.
The pedestrian was pronounced dead shortly after.
Channel NewsAsia understands that the man was a Nepalese student.
The bus driver is assisting police with their investigations.
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Wow. 2 accidents in a week. That's really bad. What is happening with SBST nowadays? Kill people only. Is it because they're unhappy on the abuse of Bus Captains that they take it out on other people?
Jinxed.
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