Man gets one week’s jail for negligent cycling that killed elderly pedestrian
Haaris Sulaiman was a full-time national serviceman with the Singapore Police Force at the time of the offence.
On August 24, 2025, a 22-year-old former Singapore Police Force national serviceman, Haaris Sulaiman, was sentenced to a week in jail and ordered to pay $5,000 in compensation for causing the death of an 83-year-old woman while cycling negligently on a footpath. The woman suffered a fractured skull and died two days later on April 24, 2025.
Haaris, who was attached to the Kampong Java Neighbourhood Police Centre at the time, cycled on a footpath along Rochor Road at speeds up to 14kmh, exceeding the 10kmh limit. He failed to observe the elderly pedestrian on his left as he checked for oncoming vehicles at a traffic junction. The court accepted Haaris' apology and remorse but rejected his plea for a reduced sentence, emphasizing the increasing number of cyclist-related accidents in 2025 that had reached a four-year high, with 772 incidents, 17 of which were fatal.
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