Over 118,000 speeding violations in first half of 2025; situation shows no signs of improvement: TP

SINGAPORE - The number of speeding violations has surged 45.5 per cent in the first half of 2025 from the same period the previous year, with more than 118,000 offences recorded.

In the first six months of 2024, there were more than 81,100 violations.

The fastest offender caught in 2025 was hurtling down the AYE at 178kmh, more than double the road’s speed limit of 80kmh.

To tackle this worrying trend, the Traffic Police (TP) will be activating the speed enforcement function in more red-light cameras.

The function has been

progressively activated islandwide since April 2024,

and these cameras have detected more than 42,400 speeding violations.

Despite the measures, the first half of 2025 has shown no signs of improvement, said TP.

In 2024, Singapore saw the

highest number of speeding violations in a decade

.

It was previously reported to be more than 191,900 violations, but the figure has since been updated by the authorities to more than 201,300.

This was a 72.9 per cent increase from the over 116,400 speeding violations in 2023.

Heavier penalties for speeding will kick in from January 2026, with

more demerit points and higher fines

for such offences.

Superintendent Lian Weixiong, head of TP’s Research, Planning and Organisational Development Branch, said action must be taken to save lives.

Speaking on Aug 7 at the PSA Pasir Panjang Terminal, where TP conducted a road safety talk, he said: “Traffic Police will pull out all the stops to put an end to this. We will continue to intensify our enforcement operations and outreach programmes.

“We must act now to prevent more lives from being put at risk on our roads.”

In 2024, there were 46 speeding-related fatal accidents, up from 32 in 2023.

There have been some horrific fatal accidents reported in the past few years.

On Oct 29, 2022, Koh Chew Wa, then 35, was

speeding in his Mercedes-Benz along Church Street when he crashed into a jaywalking pedestrian

and flung him into the air. The car was going at up to 97kmh at the time, even though the speed limit there was 50kmh.

Koh did not stay at the scene to help, but fled instead. He later sent his car for repairs to get rid of the evidence.

The victim, a 26-year-old pharmacist, died in hospital.

The prosecution had called out Koh’s cowardly and deplorable behaviour, and the court jailed him for a year in 2024.

On Dec 23, 2021, Jeremiah Ng En You, then 32, was

drunk when he sped along Tampines Avenue 1

in his brother’s car and ploughed into several vehicles.

The chain collision killed a Gojek driver and injured six others.

The court said Ng had treated the roads like a racetrack, driving at up to 169kmh even though the speed limit there was 60kmh.

He was jailed for seven years in 2023.

Supt Lian also urged heavy vehicle companies to install speed limiters early, ahead of the deadline in 2026 and 2027.

The speed limiter regime,

first announced by TP in 2023,

requires all lorries with a maximum laden weight (MLW) of between 3,501kg and 12,000kg to be fitted with a speed limiter.

The device caps the speed of such vehicles at 60kmh.

Goods vehicles with an MLW of over 12,000kg are already fitted with such devices.

From 2026, all newly imported lorries with an MLW over 3,500kg must be equipped with the device.

Existing lorries registered before 2018 must also have the limiter.

Those registered in or after 2018 have up to 2027 to install the device.

Since installations began in 2024, take-up rates have been poor.

As at June 2025,

only about 230 of the 2,600 heavy vehicles

required to have the device installed by January 2026 had done so.

This was a take-up rate of around 9 per cent, or fewer than one in 10.

TP said this has since gone up to around 34 per cent, or one in three.

Lorries fitted with the device have recorded almost zero speeding violations in the first half of 2025.

In comparison, there were 641 violations recorded for lorries without the device in the same period. This was a 13.5 per cent increase compared with the 565 violations for the first six months of 2024.

TP has been working with industry partners like PSA Singapore and has given road safety talks to 8,000 road users so far, including more than 2,400 heavy vehicle drivers.

Supt Lian said: “We urge companies to install speed limiters early, and every road user needs to exercise greater responsibility.”