Tragic

Tragic
adjective
1. characteristic or suggestive of tragedy: tragic solemnity.
2. extremely mournful, melancholy, or pathetic: a tragic plight.
3. dreadful, calamitous, disastrous, or fatal: a tragic event.
4. of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of tragedy: the tragic drama.
5. acting in or writing tragedy: a tragic actor; a tragic poet.
6. the tragic, the element or quality of tragedy in literature, art, drama, etc.: lives that had never known anything but the tragic.
—Synonyms 2. distressing, pitiful.
—Antonyms 1–3. comic.
adj.
1. Relating to or characteristic of dramatic tragedy or tragedies: tragic plays; the tragic hero.
2. Writing or performing in tragedy: a tragic poet.
3. Having the elements of tragedy; involving death, grief, or destruction: a tragic accident.

Yesterday

BOY, 8, DIES IN ACCIDENT AT SIMEI
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AN eight-year-old Chinese boy died yesterday after being hit by a lorry at
Simei Street 3 - just a few hundred metres from Changi General Hospital
(CGH) where his mother worked as an enrolled nurse.

The Primary Three student from the nearby Changkat Primary School had head
injuries and was taken unconscious to CGH, where he was pronounced dead
soon after arrival at 4.15pm.

A hospital spokesperson, who described the scene at the hospital as
"upsetting", said the boy's family was too distraught to talk to the
media.

A passer-by who had heard a "loud bang" said she later saw the boy lying
in a pool of blood in the waiting bay between Simei MRT station and
Eastpoint Mall. The lorry had also stopped in the bay.

She said the entrance was usually sealed off "except when delivery trucks
are loading and unloading".

But Mr Jason Wong, a Simei resident whose son is also from Changkat
Primary School, claimed that the bay was not meant for delivery vehicles
and was only cordoned off by a nylon string that could be untied easily.

"The sign there reads: 'No entrance for unauthorised vehicles'," said Mr
Wong.

Lorries often reverse slowly in the bay "with no one to guide them in", he
added.

Given the high pedestrian traffic in the area, he questioned the lack of
precautions.

The lorry driver, a Chinese man in his 50s, has been arrested and police
are investigating the accident. - SHERALYN TAY

Today News report

But somehow this only a briefly tok abt it..n then many things are unknown due to lack of the "real" eyes-witness n then also no one noe tt time driver's speed n whether he noe the boy existence or nt..so if e driver sentence to jail then will be weird, nt fair? can't judge.
somehow this accident reflects a lot of things. like if there is some rules set n some precautions should also be implement. every company should had a driver plus a person to help the driver. if this kind of money also dun wan 2 spent then the company also very irresponsible.
somehow e landing authorities or govt had to put some rules also to prevent any accident le.
then parents n guardian must also watch their children as children usually naughty. but driver should also be careful as they reversing their vehicles. as who noe will there be anyone there.