Lawyer Offers Free Service for Lorry Driver Who Could Be Charged with Rash Driving

It seems like the “interest” in the cyclist vs lorry driver is dwindling, and someone has been pretty busy changing his Linkedin account name. It’s alleged that the cyclist had turned from a Chinese into an ang mo, and he loves smiling.

Why won’t he just disappear from the online world, like the many “online villains”? Or just Eden-Ang-ed his accounts (i.e. stay radio silent)?

But anyways.

Both the cyclist and the lorry driver have since been arrested and they could both be facing charges: the cyclist would be charged with rash riding and mischief, while the lorry driver might be charged with rash driving.

There is not much info pertaining to rash riding. However, for mischief, the punishment could be an imprisonment of up to one year and/or fine.

For reckless driving (we can’t be certain if it’s similar to rash driving, since we couldn’t find anything about “rash driving”), the lorry driver could face a imprisonment of up to 12 months and/or up to $5,000 fine if it is his first offence. If it is his second offence, his driving license might be revoked.

In addition, the police has mentioned that after the incident, the cyclist allegedly suffered injuries after being knocked down. According to the lorry driver, the cyclist even had a bandage on in the police station and brought along an x-ray.

Well, he must be so seriously inju—

—I mean, he must have some seriously good pain threshold.

If it were me, I’d be rowing on the grass like Neymar and just request $6 million in compensation on the spot.

But anyways.

Fact of the matter is that the lorry driver, even if accidentally, did knock down the cyclist—and this fact would mean that the law isn’t in his favour.

But in comes Mr Xie Mingda.

Lawyer Allegedly Wants to Provide Free Legal Service to Lorry Driver

Let’s just ignore the fact on whether the lorry driver needs the free service or not, and focus on the lawyer who’s walking the talk.

If you read any comments online, you’ll see netizens offering help to the lorry driver, and let’s face it: chances are, they’re humblebragging.

I mean, I’ll also like to help by giving $1 million to the lorry driver—so can anyone give me the lorry driver’s number?

When someone really gives me the number, I’ll just delete the number because hey: people online are praising me for my good deed.

But not Mr Xie Mingda.

According to Lianhe Wanbao, the lorry driver claimed that the lawyer has got his number from either his relative or friend and told him that he’ll be “settling” the case.

The lorry driver said that Mr Xie would be writing a plea letter to the Attorney-General’s Chambers, claiming that the incident was purely accidental and hope that the driver won’t be charged.

Updates About the Case So Far

The driver would have to go back to the police station on 7 January 2019.

So far, he has yet to receive any compensation demand or lawyer’s letter from the cyclist.

While it’s not a closure yet, at least now we know the lorry driver is receiving real help from someone, and not just some self-praising egoistic comments from netizens #justsaying

(Anyway, anyone has got the lorry driver’s number? I’ll like to buy a new lorry for him.)

(I saw a nice one in Toy’R’Us)