SINGAPORE: Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage purportedly showing the scene outside Lucky Plaza just before Sunday’s fatal car crash has emerged.
The video, which shows the incident from four different camera angles, began circulating on social media on Monday (Dec 30) afternoon. The footage appears to be a recording of a CCTV monitor.
On one screen, a dark-coloured car can be seen leaving the drop-off point outside the Lucky Plaza apartment block to make a U-turn. The car then accelerates across the two-lane road. The point where the car appears to crash into a railing, where people had been standing, appears on a separate screen.
The CCTV clip, which appears sped up, also shows the car landing on a service road leading out of Lucky Plaza’s car park.
The accident led to the death of two people and four injuries, all of whom were Filipinos working in Singapore.
The Philippine Embassy confirmed that the victims’ families in the Philippines had been informed.
One of the victims who died and another, who is critically injured, are sisters, Philippine Embassy charge d’affaires Adrian Bernie Candolada told CNA.
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A 64-year-old male driver was arrested on Sunday for dangerous driving causing death, police said.
The man, who is a driver-partner with ride-hailing firm Grab, was suspended as investigations are underway.
Lucky Plaza is a popular gathering place for Filipino foreign domestic workers on their days off on Sundays.
Other videos circulating online show that many had been in the immediate vicinity of the accident.
A photo circulating on social media of paramedics attending to victims after an accident at Lucky Plaza on Dec 29, 2019.
Members of the public have come forward with offers of donations, a spokesperson from the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME) told CNA.
“We will be giving these donations to the family of the deceased through our volunteer.”
The organisation said it has opened a channel through its Facebook page for members to donate tothe victims’ families.
The Centre for Domestic Employees said it is also planning to set up a donation channel.
A cordon erected near the entrance of the Lucky Plaza apartment block after a car ran onto a walkway and knocked down pedestrians on Dec 29, 2019.
