Maserati Driver Who Dragged TP Officer Facing 10 New Charges While Driving a BMW

If the authorities hand you a lifetime driving ban, you may get the vague suspicion that they don’t want you to drive anymore.

This means your traffic offences were so egregious that they couldn’t possibly allow you on the roads again.

So, you have two options:

1. Accept your ban and take public transport
2. Accept your ban and take public transport

Yes, there really is only one option. But one Maserati had an interesting solution to his lifetime driving ban; keep driving, but in another car.

Maserati Driver With Lifetime Driving Ban Facing 10 New Charges While Driving a BMW

A Maserati driver who was handed a lifetime ban last year for dragging a cop for more than 100m along is back doing what he does best: flouting road traffic rules.

Lee Cheng Yan is now facing 10 new charges for traffic offences committed in 2021 alone.

The offences took place between 13 Feb and 12 March. Even though he’s banned from driving, Lee drove a BMW on four occasions this year:

• at around 2.30pm on 13 Feb at the service road of Block 18 Upper Boon Keng Road
• at about 5.25pm on 1 March at the service road of Block 2C Upper Boon Keng Road
• at about 12.40am on 4 March along Ang Mo Kio Street 32
• at about 4am on 12 March along MacPherson Road towards the direction of Airport Road

His offences include:

• one count of driving while under disqualification
• one count of driving without insurance for each of the four occasions
• one charge of failing to comply with a police road block
• one charge of dangerous driving

He also sped at 140kmh along MacPherson Road, where the speed limit is 50kmh, and later beat two red lights.

I get the feeling that this man doesn’t care much for traffic signs.

Appeal Against Conviction in 2017

On Friday (19 March), Lee appeared in the High Court to appeal against his conviction and sentence for offences in 2017.

If you’ve forgotten about those, allow me to refresh your memory.

On 17 Nov that year, a policeman had stopped Lee for driving without a seat belt. At the time, Lee was disqualified from driving due to earlier traffic offences.

The officer, Staff Sgt Khairulanwar, approached the car to speak to the driver, but Lee fled the scene in his white Maserati.

The officer’s uniform got caught in the driver-side door of the car and he was dragged along the road as a result.

When he fell onto the road, Lee sped off without assisting the injured officer.

Staff Sgt Khairulanwar was treated for pain in his right knee, neck, and lower back in hospital. He was given more than 20 days of medical leave.

In court on Friday, however, Lee argued he was not driving the Maserati when the accident took place.

He claimed that about two hours before the incident, he had given the car keys to a man known only as “Kelvin”, whom he had known for about five months.

Even if he manages to get this conviction overturned, Lee is also facing 59 other charges related to online gambling and illegal moneylending.

A trial is expected to start next week.

Featured Image: Facebook (Yan Han)