Thursday, May 17, 2012

Fatal Ferrari crash in Singapore caught on dashboard camera

The human cost of the horrific accident involving a Ferrari in the early morning hours of Saturday morning at the junction off Raffles Hospital in Bugis keeps mounting. Tai De Fu, the taxi driver involved in the three-vehicle crash, is the third person to die in the motor accident.

The 52-year-old father of three had sustained a severe brain haemorrhage and died in the intensive care unit of the hospital at about 7pm on Sunday. The fatal accident on Saturday has already claimed two lives — the driver of the Ferrari himself and the passenger in the taxi, revealed to be a Japanese tourist in her 20s.


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Another two people — a motor-cycle rider in his 20s and a 20-something female passenger in the Ferrari were also injured. A spokesperson from the Singapore Civil Defence Force said they received a call at 4:17am notifying them of the accident, which involved a red Ferrari, a motorbike and a taxi. The Ferrari driver has been identified as 31-year-old Chinese businessman Ma Chi, who was pronounced dead on the scene.

Ma is a financial investor from Sichuan, China and relocated to Singapore and with this wife and child four years ago. According to a family friend, he was said to be applying for permanent residency in Singapore. He and his family live in a penthouse in the East Coast and his wife is expecting a second child. Witnesses say that the Ferrari crashed into a taxi when it ran a red light, causing the taxi to hit a passing motorcycle.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It is sad. The Ferrari Driver ran a red light. Word is he was drunk and with a hooker. Sentiment in Singapore is so strong, they stopped reporting on this issue for a while. In Hospital, the taxi driver's wife whispered to him that it was not his fault. He teared (without waking) and died a minute later.