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Senior assistant director at MOE allegedly injured man while drink driving

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A senior assistant director at the Ministry of Education (MOE) was allegedly drink driving in 2022 when he went against the flow of traffic and hit a car, injuring the other driver. Edmund Lam Kiat Choong, 43, who is from the security and readiness section of the ministry,...

Lam is accused of driving against the flow of traffic there for nearly 320m and of getting his vehicle into a head-on collision with another car.

The other driver, a 54-year-old man, was hurt following the accident but court documents did not disclose details about his condition at the time. Lam was later found to have at least 77 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath, more than double the prescribed limit of 35mcg.the highest since 2018 when 178 such cases were recorded.The number of people arrested for drink driving also increased from 1,453 in 2021 to 1,685 in 2022.

If convicted of drink driving, a first-time offender can be jailed for up to a year and fined up to $10,000.Get The New Paper on your phone with the free TNP app. Download from the

 

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