
Dr T Vanitha, who narrowly escaped death herself, told The Star the Proton Gen.2, driven against traffic by a teenage girl, suddenly changed lanes some 50 metres away from her.
“I saw the car zig-zagging on the fast lane towards me. All I could do was to slow down my car. I uttered ‘Oh My God’ and in front of me, about 50m away, the car suddenly changed lane,” the 31-year-old doctor was quoted as saying.
Dr Vanitha said the Gen.2 then collided with Fandi’s Kelisa and spun out of control before hitting her car, The Star reported. Fandi, 26, was flung out of his vehicle.
“I rushed to him, hoping to give him first aid, but I detected no pulse from him and his pupils were dilated.
“I still performed CPR on him but I couldn’t save him. Being a doctor, I really felt bad for not being able to save him,” Dr Vanitha was quoted as saying in an interview with the daily.
At 7.50am on March 14, the teenager drove her car against traffic along the NSE, smashing into six vehicles and killing Fandi on the spot.
Police believe she had been doing more than 110kph along the highway, driving with her hazard lights on.
Videos of the incident quickly went viral on social media.
The girl told police she had made a U-turn after seeing a lorry stalled on the middle of the road.
However, police said surveillance footage showed no evidence of a stalled lorry, adding that she might have been hallucinating.
Dr Vanitha told The Star that the teenager appeared sluggish and “looked blur” when she tried to confront her.
In the report, she was quoted as saying the girl had remained seated inside her car until passers-by told her to come out.
Dr Vanitha herself suffered a concussion as well as bruises to her legs, wrists and back, the report said. She also sustained a sprained elbow and knee.