Posted on December 01, 2017. SINGAPORE: The validity period of the Provisional Driving Licence (PDL) for learner motorists will be extended to two years from Friday (Dec 1), from its current period of six months. In a news release on Thursday (Nov 30), the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said the change is to improve road
Posted on November 15, 2017. Majority of the cases are linked to syndicates that trick unsuspecting individuals into doing their dirty work. SINGAPORE: While a good number of traffic accidents in Singapore are exactly that – unfortunate accidents – some of them might point to something more sinister. According to the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD),
Posted on November 02, 2017. SMRT Taxis is seeking more than $2,000 in losses after one of its cabbies claimed to have been rear-ended by a car on the Central Expressway (CTE) in July. But the other motorist said no such collision with the taxi took place, and has pictures to prove his case. While
Posted on November 01, 2017. SINGAPORE: A woman was sentenced to 11 months’ jail for conspiring to cheat an insurance company of S$21,849.55 by letting her car be used in a staged accident. Although Ho was not personally involved in the bogus accident, the prosecution argued that she knowingly allowed her vehicle to be used in a staged
Posted on October 23, 2017. SINGAPORE: The Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced on Monday (Oct 23) that Singapore’s vehicle growth rate will be cut to zero, down from the current 0.25 per cent, for all private passenger cars (Categories A and B) and motorcycles (Category D). The change will take effect from February next year as the
Posted on October 16, 2017. Civil engineering consultant Alvin Phua is among those who have signed up to be a Schoolber driver. “I am committed as long as my daughter is schooling, so I guess that’s pretty committed,” said the 54-year-old who drives his daughter, a Secondary 2 student, to school every workday morning. Mr Toni
Posted on October 12, 2017. SINGAPORE: A Malaysian woman was on Tuesday (Oct 10) sentenced to 14 months’ jail for her part in a conspiracy to make fraudulent insurance claims by staging traffic accidents in Singapore. Rekha Tandaeduban, 28, submitted a total of about S$37,000 in insurance claims for the staged accidents. The former security officer
Posted on October 09, 2017. JOHOR BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – All foreign-registered vehicles entering Malaysia will soon require a RM25 (S$8.06) vehicle entry permit (VEP), the country’s transport minister Liow Tiong Lai said. The VEP will be valid for five years and vehicle owners will receive a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag to be