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Horrific Ferrari crash

SINGAPORE - The actual footage from a cabby's in-car video recorder has surfaced online.

Uploaded onto video-sharing website YouTube, the grainy footage detailed the entire accident.

Warning: Graphic.

Time: About 4.09:01am, 12 May, 2012
A taxi stops at the traffic light junction between a motorcycle and the ComfortDelGro taxi which was about to meet its end.

A conversation in dialect between a man and a woman can heard through the in-car camera's voice recording function.

On the left of the video, a pedestrian crosses the junction.

4.09:17am
Some 15 seconds into the video, the light turns green. The taxi with the in-car camera moves off the line but the other ComfortDelGro taxi is faster.

The blue taxi pulls ahead.

4.09:21am
The ComfortDelGro taxi is about two car-lengths ahead when a sudden blur of red dashes across and smashes into it.

The crash is loud and sickening.

Equally loud. The exclamations of shock followed by relief from the man and the woman in the cab.

"Lucky man," the man said before the video ends.

tonyng@sph.com.sg

Also watch the video in slow motion here:

 
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