The road is a dangerous place.

Apart from the Mr Beans (motorists that bribed their instructors with Chupa Chups lollipops to pass), you’ve also got the Flash (driving so fast you would have thought that they are rushing for reincarnation), the Granny (driving so slow you would have thought that the car was made by a Tortoise manufacturer), the Bob (tells on everything illegal he sees, STOMPs and is the one checking for stickers on decals) and of course, the Bully (just think all the rude and vulgar drivers you’ve seen in your life and combine them into one).

So yeah, whatever your parents told you, the road is a hellhole.

Unfortunately, it can get you into some pretty deep shit too, as can be seen from this incident between two drivers.

One of them even incurred a four-week jail term.

What happened?

On 17 August 2015, Mr Jazz Tan Ti Jie, 29, had been driving along the rightmost lane of Yishun Ring Road (dammit you again) when Quek Chin Fern, 43 (then a private-hire car driver), suddenly swerved into his lane from the left.

It resulted in a collision.

Both drivers stopped along the road, near the entrance of Yishun Junior College.

Tan proceeded to ask Quek for her identification details, but she only consented to give her mobile number. He responded by saying that he would be calling the police, and requested for her to wait for them to arrive.

She refused, and claimed that she had to leave.

To prevent her from driving off, Tan stood behind her car. But Quek reversed her car nevertheless, and inched it back so much that there was contact with Tan.

Tan subsequently shifted to the front of the car to block off her path, but again, Quek didn’t care; she inched the car forward, and the front bumper even touched his knees.

Yeah, car kissing human!

Quek continued this for another estimated 50m, before Tan finally gave way. He had felt pain on his left knee, and his left shoe was somehow stuck under the front right tyre of Quek’s car. She didn’t miss the opportunity, and speedily drove off.

Tan was diagnosed with mild erythema (redness) on his left knee.

Quek, on the other hand, was eventually apprehended.

Her husband had an affair

According to Quek’s pro bono lawyer, Mr Gino Hardial Singh, she had picked up her 17 year-old son from his school and needed to drop him home quickly because she had something urgent to attend to.

Singh continued with his mitigation plea that Quek had been diagnosed in 2011 with ‘emotionally unstable personality disorder’ and ‘major depressive disorder’.

In 2012, she had discovered that her husband was having an affair. The revelation caused a breakdown of the family relationship.

In February 2013, her husband passed away. This attributed to her relapse, and she was subsequently found unfit for work for six months.

“Chin Fern and her two children have been through hell in the past year.”

This wasn’t her first brush with the law

Just last August, in 2016, they were detained for reportedly hurting a Johor immigration officer.

After being released from custody, they alternated between living on the streets and with friends in Johor for a year.

Her children returned in May 2017 after being cleared of the charge. Quek, on the other hand, stayed back in Johor and got a fine.

When she returned to Singapore on Sept 16, she was taken in. Because she had missed a pre-trial conference over the offence involving her and Tan, an arrest warrant was put out for her and she was arrested once she stepped onto the island.

During her sentencing, a second charge of mooncake theft (wait, mooncake?) in August 2013 was deliberated.

Previous convictions also include cheating, misappropriation, attempted cheating, theft and causing hurt.

The maximum sentence for performing a rash act is one year’s jail and a $5,000 fine.

Conclusion

There’s not much to take away from this incident, honestly.

Quek was at fault, and Tan was the victim. She had slight mental issues and had previous brushes with the law, and was sentenced to four weeks of jail. Straightforward stuff, really.

Her backstory kind of touched me though. It feels like the kind of backdrop an author will give a villain, right after the baddie gets overpowered by the hero and prepares to die.

It’s almost like the author is going: “Hey he’s not all that bad. At least give him some love when he dies. Oh I know; I will give him a sad ass backstory so that readers will change their opinions of him from ‘I want him to die. Pronto. NOW’ to ‘Omg he’s my favourite character EVER. Why did the author kill him off? Dammit get me a knife I’m going to murder the author’.”

Yeah, that kind of stuff. The only difference here is that Quek’s backstory wasn’t fabricated.

It’s reality.

Gets you thinking, doesn’t it?

But if there’s really a lesson to take away… Hmm I guess it would be something like…

Never kiss a man’s kneecaps. With your car.

It could just get you four weeks of jail.

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