SINGAPORE – The 34-year-old driver of a white Maserati who injured a traffic police officer in a hit-and-run incident along Bedok Reservoir Road on Friday (Nov 17) night has been charged in court on Saturday.

He is accused of causing grievous hurt with a rash act.

The driver of the car, Lee Cheng Yan, accelerated the vehicle towards the 26-year-old traffic police officer who had stopped him for enforcement checks.

The Traffic Police officer suffered multiple injuries and was conveyed to Changi General Hospital for treatment.

A police spokesman told TODAY that the Traffic Police officer is currently conscious.

The car, which TODAY understands is a white Maserati, was later found abandoned at Cedar Road near Upper Aljunied.

The accident happened at about 9.20pm. After a manhunt of several hours, Lee was arrested in a HDB flat along Geylang Bahru Road, Police said in an update on Facebook at 4.10am.

Lee was charged in court on Saturday with a rash act causing grievous hurt. If convicted, he faces a jail term of up to four years, a fine of up to S$10,000, or both.

A motorcyclist who witnessed the accident attempted to give chase. A video uploaded on social media showed the motorcyclist in pursuit of the Maserati.

According to previous media reports, Lee has had several brushes with the law. On July 4, Lee’s Maserati was impounded for three months. He was also fined S$13,500 for a series of traffic violation, including illegal modifications to his Maserati, which he used to race in Malaysia.

Between 2012 and 2015, Lee was caught eight times for altering his car’s exhaust system. During that period, he would rent an approved exhaust system to evade inspection tests. Following which, the illegal modifications would be reinstalled.

 He was busted after a series of complaints in his neighbourhood for noise pollution.

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In 2016, Lee (pictured) was also involved in a traffic accident along Orchard Road, which led to a driving ban being imposed on him for nine months. He was also fined S$2,500 then.

Lee was also caught for making an unauthorised U-turn into New Upper Changi Road in 2015, which endangered the safety of other road users.

Friday night’s accident is the latest in a spate of accidents involving Traffic Police officers.

On June 2, two Traffic Police Officers were injured after pursuing a 43-year-old man who fled from a road block along Mackenzie Road, off Selegie Road.

A day earlier, Traffic Police officer Staff Sergeant Nadzrie Matin, 29, was killed in the line of duty. Staff Sergeant Nadzrie was performing traffic patrol duties at about 10.40am when he got into an accident involving a van along Serangoon Road.

Staff Sergeant Nadzrie was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital but died from his injuries. The 52-year-old driver of the van was later arrested for a negligent act causing death.