Remember Elise Tay, the jogger who was sideswiped by a speeding Trans-Cab taxi on Tuesday night?
She posted a video of the incident on Facebook and it got crazy viral, eventually putting pressure on the taxi company to hunt down its erring mystery driver.
The driver has finally been located — but Trans-Cab is not revealing his identity.
The taxi company, however, rang Tay to tell her that the driver “was very apologetic”.
“When the accident happened, he didn’t know that he’d hit someone. It was only after he realised that his side mirror was flipped that he thought maybe he had hit something/someone and he drove back to see what/who he’d hit,” Tay was told by Trans-Cab.
That’s kind of hard to believe, she says, “because from the original video clip, the sound on impact was so loud, I honestly doubt that he wouldn’t have realised. That, is on top of the fact that I’m in his line of vision.”
Police are now investigating the case and, if found guilty, Trans-Cab says it is ready to fire the driver, according to a Channel NewsAsia report.
Tay, meanwhile, says she will seek compensation from TransCab.
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