Lately there are more car accidents by women drivers.

'I thought a lamp-post fell on my car': Editor in fatal crash trial

By Elena Chong

A SENIOR journalist accused of maiming a motorcyclist and killing his pillion refuted claims on Wednesday that she barrelled through a red light seconds before the crash.

Lim Hong Eng, an executive editor with Shin Min Daily News, also said she was not talking on her handphone when she rammed the motorcycle on a drizzly Christmas Eve two years ago.

With her voice breaking, the 55-year-old Lim said in Mandarin from the witness stand: 'I was not speeding. I did not use the phone. I did not drink alcohol. I was not in a rush to go anywhere. So I didn't feel that I was driving dangerously.''

Lim is accused of killing the pillion rider by dangerous driving, and grievously hurting the rider.
The pair was picking up festive goodies when they were hit and thrown off the bike.

The pillion, Indonesian maid Ms Melania Melaniawati, 24, died two days later. The rider Mr David Jermais Pattiselanno, 70, suffered a compound fracture in his leg and still needs crutches to walk.

Witnesses testified earlier this week that Lim was talking on her cellphone when her Toyota Wish sports utility vehicle hit the bike. They also said she was trying to beat a red light at the junction of Whitley and Dunearn roads.

Lim told District Judge Hamidah Ibrahim on Wednesday that she heading to the Raffles Town Club but was not in a rush when she reached the junction.

On nearing the next traffic light junction, she said something hit her car. She thought a traffic light had fallen on her vehicle.

'I wanted to stop immediately. When I was about to stop, I saw something falling on my windscreen.'

'I do not know what it was because it was very fast. Then it rolled down,' she said.

Remarks -
Look like she is totally "sotong" when driving or she is lying thru her teeth. What the hell....can she allowed to continue driving if she is totally sotong as she claimed she was. Lamp-post falling on her car? In the middle of the road?
Sad....if she is lying thru her teeth about not talking on the hp esp when there is witness reported seeing. Even for me....it is not easy to drive and talk on hp, even for hand-free ones.
The only thing left for her to do is to tell the truth what come may....becoz at her age she too is about to meet the "maker" soon unless she is totally doesn't have any believe in any god. Or that she think that she is "rich" and can get the best lawyer to get her off the "spot". Yeah...maybe she can do that with her money but when she meets her "maker" she will pay for all that she does.

Why women drivers are daring nowaday? Just look around....esp those driving "big car/SUV/MPV", they are thinking they "owned" the road or maybe their husbands "owned" the roads becoz they paid more for road tax and so on.