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By Ethan Lou
MR GERARD Ee, chairman of the Public Transport Council, has rejected calls for tougher restrictions on high-performance sports cars following the fatal three-vehicle collision in Bugis involving a Ferrari.
Instead, he blamed reckless drivers and not fast cars.
“Low-performance cars can also be going at 100kmh and beat the red light,” Mr Ee told my paper last night.
In a post on citizen-journalism website Stomp yesterday, a netizen known as “Ban it” proposed that high-performance sports cars be banned on congested Singapore roads.
The netizen wrote: “As a small country, should we accommodate such high-performance cars on our increasingly packed roads?”
The crash occurred at the junction of Rochor Road and Victoria Street – notorious for accidents – and is the seventh in two weeks there. Last Saturday’s incident claimed three lives.
Another netizen known as “ialwayswin” said: “We must petition to ban these cars on packed roads and allow them only on designated roads.”
Mr Ee, however, felt that instituting harsher regulations every time a particular type of car is involved in a fatal crash will only make things worse.
“In the end, nobody will be able to drive,” he said.
ethanlou@sph.com.sg
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Video clip shows Ferrari speeding, beating the red light
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(Photos: Shin Min, ST, Wanbao) |
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