By Sujin Thomas

MANY questions about the circumstances of a Feb 10 car crash which killed three men will remain unanswered because the brain-damaged sole survivor cannot remember a thing.

But the one certainty which emerged from the coroner's inquiry yesterday was which man among the four was at the wheel of the Hyundai Avante.

From a pair of slippers stuck under the brake pedal since identified by his family, it was clear that Mr Jayakumar Asokan, 26, was driving the car along Dunearn Road that morning.

Survivor faces grim future

by Teh Joo Lin

MR MUHAMMAD Alif Mohamed Shah, 19, can read and respond to SMSes, though it may take him some time to craft a reply.

Once an active sportsman who used to swim, play soccer and box, he now only takes walks, escorted by his mother.

It has been eight months since he pulled through the crash which snuffed out three other lives, including that of his elder brother's. He suffered severe brain trauma.

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