A LATE-NIGHT crash between two cars along Mandai Road was so horrific that one of the vehicles was crushed beyond recognition and broke in two.

An hour later, at 1am on Saturday, front-seat passenger Kalkieswaran Elangowan was dead.

The 18-year-old had just completed his 'O' levels and planned to study marine engineering at a polytechnic here.

His driver, 19, was uninjured, but the 17-year-old sitting in the back seat fractured his left leg.

The woman driving the other car, a 24-year-old, suffered scratches on her chest.

A 52-year-old bus driver who wanted to be known only as Mr Ang saw the accident and told Shin Min Daily News that both vehicles were speeding towards Woodlands Road at the time.

The first car, which Mr Elangowan was in, mounted a kerb before hitting the tree, he said.

The car behind crashed into it before slamming into the tree as well.

Both passengers of the first car were apparently flung out on impact, Mr Ang said.

Mr Elangowan's distraught family members were there to identify his body at the mortuary on Sunday morning. He had an older brother a younger sister, and lived with his family at Petir Road in Bukit Panjang.

They said that they did not know who he was out with and where he was before the accident.

In a separate traffic accident on Saturday, a 38-year-old pedestrian was hit by a car along Boon Lay Way on Saturday evening.

Details of the accident are not clear but according to the police, Mr Yin Xiu Jian, a China national, suffered head injuries, scratches on his right elbow and a fractured right shin.

He was taken to the National University Hospital but was pronounced dead at about 10.10pm.

The driver, a Turkish man in his late 20s, is helping police with investigations.