Channel 8 actor Ben Yeo says:
Car hit my mum here and just drove off
COMEDIAN Ben Yeo hasn't been feeling particularly funny recently.
Actually, he's fuming mad.
His mother was allegedly hit by a car on Tuesday afternoon and the driver had sped off after stopping briefly.
The Channel 8 actor-compere told The New Paper last night: 'I'm very angry because it's very irresponsible (of the driver).
'I don't want that person to get away with it. I hope to be able to find some eye-witnesses.'
Mrs Yeo, 57, fell on the road and scraped her left elbow. Her right wrist is swollen and her right bicep is bruised.
Her injuries may not be life-threatening, but Ben was so angry, he returned to the accident spot yesterday to look for witnesses and to take photographs of the scene.
He was hoping to find anyone who was at a coffee shop - which is by the road - that day and who might have seen the accident.
The coffee shop was closed yesterday, but he left his contact details with neighbouring shops for the owner to call him.
Mrs Yeo, an office cleaner, was on her way to work at about 4pm when the accident happened.
She had just stepped off the pedestrian walkway to cross the two-way street at Sultan Gate when a black car turned in from Beach Road and allegedly hit her.
She fell, and when she picked herself up, the driver had allegedly driven off.
She said in a phone interview: 'I suddenly heard a 'pop' sound and the next thing I knew, my arms were hurting and my left elbow was bleeding.'
She added that she was in shock after she landed on her side, and said she was probably hit by the car's left mirror.
Mrs Yeo said the car then stopped, and she claimed she saw the driver looking at her through his rear-view mirror.
'He looked at me, I looked at him, then I looked at my arms. He probably thought I was okay and drove off,' Mrs Yeo said in Mandarin.
FILED POLICE REPORT
Ben, 29, took his mother to file a police report last night.
According to Mrs Yeo, the driver looked to be in his 30s, fair, plump and balding, and had on a white T-shirt.
Unfortunately, she was too dazed to take note of the car licence plate number and saw only two numbers.
Two passers-by, who were crossing the road just after the accident, went over to her and asked if she was all right.
After picking herself up, Mrs Yeo continued to head to work.
'It was a bit painful but I could still work. It was too troublesome to take medical leave,' she said.
Mrs Yeo cleans an office at Beach Road every Tuesday. She goes to other offices on other days, working for a few hours in the afternoon every day of the week.
In the morning, she helps take care of her 1-month-old grandson.
Ben said: 'She kept saying she's okay, but now, her neck feels a little stiff.
'She could still carry my baby nephew, though not for too long, as her arms would ache after a while.'
Mrs Yeo was working yesterday as well. Ben said she has refused to see a doctor or go for a checkup at the hospital, and prefers to apply some ointment on her bruises.
She also declined to be photographed for this report, and wanted to be known only as Mrs Yeo.
Ben said his mother didn't even inform her family right after the accident and had waited till she returned home.
His mother and father live with his two older siblings. Ben and his younger sister are both married and living on their own.
Mrs Yeo said: 'I didn't want to make them worry since they're all busy with their own work.'
Ben said it was his older sister who told him of their mother's accident when he visited her on Tuesday evening.
He said: 'I slept at about five in the morning as I was watching soccer. But even though I was so tired, I was still thinking about the accident and feeling very angry.
'I'm sure there must have been some eye-witnesses since there was a big coffee shop just opposite.
'Hopefully, someone saw the car's licence plate number and would come forward.'
source:
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Car hit my mum here and just drove off 
