00:01A businesswoman has been fined 1,500 ringgit after allowing her underage son to drive her
00:08car, a decision that ultimately cost three teenagers their lives.
00:12The magistrate's court in Seremban handed down the penalty against 40-year-old Nur
00:18Farahidaya al-Rahman with Magistrate Nurul Azuin Muhammad Talha ordering a three-month
00:24jail term in the event she is unable to pay.
00:27The court heard that on the night of March 6 last year, Nur Farahidaya permitted her 17-year-old
00:34son to drive her car along Jalan Persiaran Senawang Satu in Taman Matahari Heights.
00:40Her son ran a red light and collided with two motorcycles, killing three teenagers aged 15,
00:4716 and 17.
00:49She was charged under Section 39, Subsection 5 of the Road Transport Act 1987, which carries
00:56a maximum fine of 2,000 ringgit, a jail term of up to six months, or both.
01:02Her counsel pleaded for leniency, telling the court that Nur Farahidaya is a single mother
01:07supporting six children, four of whom are still in school, as well as her elderly parents.
01:13He noted she had been running a food business for 20 years, was a first-time offender, and
01:19had cooperated fully with investigators.
01:22The prosecution, however, pushed for the maximum sentence, arguing that three young lives were
01:28lost due to her negligence and that public interest must be taken into account.
01:33Nur Farahidaya pleaded guilty to the charge.
01:36Her son, who initially claimed trial when charged with reckless driving in April last year, changed
01:42his plea to guilty last December.
01:44He is due for sentencing in May, pending a social welfare report.
01:49The prosecution, the prosecution, of the
01:56child's foregathered guilty to thebaum's foregathered guilty to the
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