Thursday May 24, 8:17
AM
SINGAPORE: It is not an everyday sight - a car crashing into a
house - but it did happen along Andrew Road on Wednesday at about
2pm.
A Proton Savvy somersaulted and landed upside down in the garden of
the house off Lornie Road, stopping inches away from the living
room.
The garden is some five metres lower than street level.
Amazingly, driver Lim Hwee Joo came out unhurt, but dazed.
She was taken to hospital in an ambulance, just to be safe.
"I asked her, "Did you come from the highway, from the flyover?"
She said yes. I told her it's illegal to do a left turn from there
because there's another slip road coming up and that flyover is
supposed to go straight. She said she didn't know about it," said
the owner of the house, Daniel Lee.
And Mr Lee said this is not the first time that a car has crashed
into his house.
"The first and second time happened a year or two ago. There was
another girl who did the same thing. She avoided the car coming
from the flyover and then another time a taxi driver did the same
thing, also from the flyover."
The Lees are happy that no one was hurt, but still there was a fair
amount of damage to their garden.
They are hoping the Land Transport Authority will take appropriate
measures to prevent a fourth accident.
A crane was later used to lift the car out of the garden. -
CNA/yy
