ECP accident: Taiwanese model dies in car crash

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The second victim who died in a fatal car crash along the East Coast Parkway at the Marine Vista exit on Thursday morning is reportedly a 24-year-old Taiwanese model named Chen Ren-Yi.

According to reports in The New Paper and Lianhe Wanbao, Ms Chen was in the front-seat of the white Volkswagen GTI that had hit a barrer before crashing into a large tree. She died on the spot.

The 33-year-old driver, Mr Jamie Ho - director of publishing firm Magazines Integrated - was the other victim who died in the accident.

Four rear-seat passengers - three women aged 24, 26 and 29, and a 25-year-old man - were injured.

A report in The New Paper states that there was no obituary photo to accompany Ms Chen's casket at Sin Ming Drive on Saturday night and that her final journey in Singapore was "a muted affair", with about 10 colleagues and friends who came to pay their last respects before proceeding to the Mandai Crematorium and Columbarium.

According to the paper, Ms Chen had just returned to Singapore on April 20 after going back to Taipei for about three weeks.

Ms Chen, who goes by the English name Murphy, was also the lead vocalist in singing group Again and Again, reported Lianhe Wanbao, and was relatively well-known in the modelling industry in Taiwan.

One of her friends told the Chinese evening daily that Ms Chen, who has an older brother, had been waitressing after she returned from Taiwan. The New Paper reported that she was working at a club here.

Her father, who arrived in Singapore on Saturday afternoon, told The New Paper through a representative that he is certain his daughter and Mr Ho were not dating, stating that his daughter had a boyfriend back in Taiwan.

Mr Fadah Hsieh from the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore, was with Ms Chen's father at the Mandai Crematorium and Columbarium yesterday.

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 In life, Taiwanese model Chen Ren-Yi posted thousands of photographs on Instagram and Facebook.

 But in death, there was no obituary photo of her accompanying her casket at Sin Ming Drive last night. Pictured: The cremation of Chen Yi Ren, the girl who died with Jamie Ho in a car crash at Marine Vista.

 Miss Chen, 24, had died in an accident on the morning of May 1. She was the front-seat passenger in a car that crashed into a tree along the East Coast Parkway at the Marine Vista exit.

 About 10 colleagues and friends came to pay their last respects before proceeding to the Mandai Crematorium and Columbarium.

 The cremation of Chen Yi Ren, the girl who died with Jamie Ho in a car crash at Marine Vista.

 Magazines Integrated director Jamie Ho died on the spot after the white Volkswagen he was driving hit a barrier before crashing into a tree along the East Coast Parkway at the Marine Vista exit.

 He was an only child. Mr Ho’s father, Mr Ho Sum Kwong, who is the company’s managing director, told Shin Min Daily News that his son was very filial.

 The white Volkswagen GTI that he was driving had hit a barrier before crashing into a large tree along the East Coast Parkway at the Marine Vista exit.

 The accident also killed the front seat passenger, Ms Chen Ren Yi, 24, Taiwanese national, who died on the spot.

 Those at the rear, Singaporean Lim Siew Imm, 28, Taiwanese Hsiao Ya Fang, 24, Ms Chen Wen Chen, 24 and Mr Chen Cheng Min, 30, were injured.

 Miss Chen had just returned to Singapore on April 20 after going home for about three weeks. The New Paper on Sunday understands that she was working at a club here at the time of her death.

 Her father, who declined to be interviewed, later told TNPS through a representative that he is certain Mr Ho and his daughter were not dating. He insisted that his daughter had a boyfriend back in Taiwan.

 On the accident, Mr Chen said “whatever has happened, has happened”, adding that he has “no negative feeling” towards Mr Ho. Mr Fadah Hsieh (left) from the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore with Miss Chen Ren-Yi's father at the Mandai Crematorium and Columbarium

 Spiritual rites being carried out for Chen Ren Yi.

 Miss Chen, who went by the English name Murphy, was relatively known in the modelling industry in Taiwan.

 Her profiles posted on several modelling websites indicated her popularity, with most picking up on her brief introduction: “I feel that taking pretty photos are a waste of time as there are many people in this world who take pretty photos.

 "No one will remember and people don’t remember you after one look. Why not take more special - even if they are sexy or sultry - photos? After all, such photos are more interesting."

 On that fateful day, police said they received a call about the accident at 7.32am. The driver and a woman in the passenger seat were pronounced dead at the scene, while the four seated at the back were taken to Changi General Hospital for treatment.

 The driver, Jamie Ho, 33, was a director and associate publisher at Magazines Integrated.

 It is understood that both of them and one of the passengers at the back were trapped in their seats at first.

 A police officer carrying a bloodied bag from the scene of an accident that took place along the East Coast Parkway at the Marine Vista exit on the morning on 1 May 2014.

 Here is a video said to be of the accident that was uploaded onto All Singapore Stuff's Facebook page. The video stated its source as "Haihong".



 Within moments, the car has sped up to the front.

 The car's brake lights can be seen flashing red.

 It swerves into the road divider.

 It slams into a tree.

 It lays on the road divider. The driver who shot the scene can be heard exclaiming in shock.



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