Police have arrested a 30-year-old man and his 29-year-old female passenger, who allegedly fled the scene of the Tampines crash that killed a motorcyclist and his pregnant wife.
The pair were arrested on 30 October in the West Coast Road area.
The driver is due to face nine charges on 31 October, The Straits Times reported. The scheduled charges include dangerous driving causing death.
Apart from dangerous driving causing death, he will be charged with dangerous driving causing hurt, driving while disqualified, failing to stop after an accident, failing to render assistance after an accident, using a vehicle without insurance, using a deregistered vehicle, using a vehicle without a licence and displaying a false licence plate.
Preliminary investigations found that he had allegedly been at the wheel of a deregistered car fitted with a cloned number plate, even though he was disqualified from driving.
Pair Arrested After Police Search
The arrests follow a search for the male driver and female passenger of one of the cars involved in the collision.
In their earlier update on 30 October, police said the pair were absent when officers reached the scene. Preliminary investigations indicated that they had left after the accident.
The pair had abandoned their car and left without helping those who were hurt.
Motorcyclist And Pillion Rider Died In Hospital
The crash happened along Tampines Avenue 12 at about 10:35pm on 29 October and involved two cars and a motorcycle.
Both aged 24, the motorcyclist and his wife, who was riding pillion, were unconscious when they were brought to hospital, and both later died.
The other car’s driver, a 25-year-old woman, was also sent to hospital and was conscious at the time.
