Posted by Tan Hoe How Kevin.
This was an article post on Channelnewsasia on 24 June 2011. It was an article titled: Thai girl's accident: Dad asks more questions. More information about the article, a girl from Thailand, lost her legs after falling onto the MRT track and was hit by a train at Ang Mo Kio MRT station. What really attracted my attention to this article was that the father of the victim, thought the money given to him by SMRT was compensation. SMRT given the father $10,000 as initial financial support and $5,000 out of goodwill. It was out of goodwill that SMRT donated money to him. Many others also contributed to the girl's hospital fees and donated huge amounts of money to her. It was all out of goodwill. Instead of accepting them with thanks, the father rejected $5,000 from the $15,000 given to him, and filed a lawsuit against SMRT claiming $3.4Million in damages. He viewed the $10,000 given to him as a very small amount compared to how his daughter "lost her legs and her future".
I felt disgusted and angry against the father of the victim. I agree that the amount given by SMRT is little but it was out of goodwill. Whatever happened to his daughter was an accident, not intentional. Disgusted because the father seemed to be greedy and unreasonable. Angry because the daughter did not talk to her father about it and explain that it was an accident. SMRT never said that it has to be responsible for the accidents that happen in their stations. So on what grounds can the father sue SMRT?
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1137068/1/.html
