'Ban PMDs from footpaths so we can feel safe again': Accident victims and pedestrians

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She had no idea what hit her on a walking path, but she knows she has to live with the consequences for the rest of her life.

Madam Tan Peck Lay, 58, broke her right wrist after e-scooter rider Tan Gim Moh, who was holding a cigarette in one hand, knocked into her from behind in Yishun last year.

The part-time sales executive, who found out what happened later from witnesses, paid about $1,000 for medical costs and physiotherapy, for which she was not compensated.

For the next three months, Madam Tan, who lives alone, was unable to bathe herself or do housework as her injured wrist was in a cast.

More far-reaching, her encounter with Tan, 61, who was jailed for 18 days, left such a mark that she has given up her cycling hobby and evening walks.

“You get a phobia, honestly. You are scared to fall again. It is no joke,” Madam Tan told The New Paper.

“These errant e-scooter riders, they don’t even know how much trouble and inconvenience they cause people.”

Still, Madam Tan can consider herself lucky to be able to talk about her traumatic experience.

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