Singapore – An observant and concerned netizen posted a roadkill incident online showing the telltale “souvenir” that the killer vehicle left behind – its licence plate.
“Hello hit and run Porsche driver, your car plate still on the road,” wrote Facebook user Xavier Tay Yong Jing on community page Complaint Singapore on Wednesday (Dec 29).
He posted photos of the incident which happened along Upper Jurong Road towards the Pan Island Expressway.
One of the more graphic photos showed splotches of blood on the road where the car hit the animal.
A few metres up ahead, a dead animal, presumably a wild boar, can be spotted in the middle of the road.
It seems likely that the driver in this hit-and-run incident did not immediately realise that the impact must have dislodged the car’s licence plate.
Not to worry. The cops will be on to it. The netizen said the police and National Environment Agency had been notified.
The Road Traffic Act makes it quite plain that simply driving off after such an accident is frowned upon. It states: that “where owing to the presence of a motor vehicle on a road an accident occurs resulting in injury or death to any animal, the driver of the motor vehicle must stop the vehicle if he has reasonable grounds to believe that the presence of the injured or dead animal on the road is likely to pose any safety hazard to other road users”.
Drivers who fail to stop and attend to injured animals may be fined up to S$3,000 and jailed for up to a year. Repeat offenders can be fined up to S$5,000 and jailed for up to two years. /TISG
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