i can’t believe this happens in Singapore. When i heard it from my frienz, i thought he is relating a HK TVBI Series. After reading the news, i still find it unbelievable.

This guy, Gerard Alphonsus Louis is my “Hero”. He forced the police to draw and open fire on his service pistol; as he rammed his car towards to police officer, just to avoid the road block.

SINGAPORE: A 48-year-old man who almost ran over a police officer when avoiding a roadblock in June this year was sentenced to four years jail on Monday.

Gerard Alphonsus Louis was also fined S$39,800 and banned from driving for life.

The incident happened on June 13 during an anti drink-driving ring-fencing operation at the junction of Neil Road and Kreta Ayer Road. Louis, who was then on bail for an earlier drink-driving offence, had reversed his car against the flow of traffic to avoid the roadblock.

He did not stop despite being warned, and drove straight towards a police officer manning the roadblock – forcing the officer to draw his service pistol and open fire at the car’s front wheel to avoid being run over.

Louis, who was driving without a licence, also faced a string of traffic offences accumulated between March last year and June.

- extracted from Channel News Asia

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1001852/1/.html

Thank god that he is banned driving for life!

~Jotting down my memories, creating new life’s chapter~

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I was driving to Tiong Bahru for my evening class and it happened along clementi road. A SMRT cab was turn out of the ulu pandan road into the main road (clementi road). What he did next gave me a shock. I was driving on the 2nd fast lane at a constant speed, since lights are all green. This SMRT cab without even bother to signal, veered his cab directly into my lane within a fraction of a second!!!! At that very instant, I was like “WHAT THE F**K?!!” The next few seconds, my adrenaline rushed, my hands and legs auto-piloted, managed to swerve my car to the first lane to avoid “kissing”. I was quite lucky at that point of time, as the comfort cab was driving quite slowly on that lane.

I have seen people changing lanes without signaling their intent a lot of times. These people think that the roads are theirs, and their skills are god send. I strongly feel that if they want to dig their own graves, do not implicate others. If people can learn to be more thoughtful and less self-centered, there will be a lot less accidents.

The second incident happened around 2315hrs, when I was driving home from Toa Payoh. I was driving behind a comfort cab along Upper Aljunied road (2 lanes). The cab all of sudden jam his brake, stopping his car in between the two lanes. I was like “Not again!”, swerved to avoid the stupid cab. I seriously cannot comprehend what he was thinking at the point of time. I meant, if you really need to stop urgently, you can drive to the side of the road and stop, and not recklessly jam brake for nothing.

The cab authority should increase the standard of cabbies.

Coincidentally all these happen on the first day of seventh month.

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