Mr Richard Constantine Pereira, 44, was a businessman involved in air and sea cargo freight.

His body was so badly burnt in the Thursday night crash in Changi that relatives had to identify the body with the help of his personal belongings.

But the equally-charred bodies of two female passengers also found trapped in the Subaru Legacy remain unidentified.

One of them is believed to be a 22-year-old Filipino woman. The relationship between the two women and Mr Pereira is unknown.

A friend of Mr Pereira, who was at the mortuary, said he believed that Mr Pereira was headed towards a chalet in the Changi Village area for a gathering when the crash happened at about 9.15pm.

Mr Pereira is believed to have lost control of his car, which veered to the right before mounting the central divider and barrelling into a tree.

The car became engulfed in a massive ball of flames that streaked 4m high into the sky. Debris such as glass shards from the car's windscreen were strewn at least 20m away.

Singapore Civil Defence Force rescuers took hours to remove their remains from the car.

Mr Pereira is listed as the director of a company called Victtory Remn. It is a small outfit involved in transportation, air and sea freight and has its registered address in Peninsula Plaza in North Bridge Road.

Read the full report in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.