A great place for fishing, not so great for driving off the road

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The Mata Jetty in Sembawang is a great place for fishing, and it has been for the last 60 years. Of course, 60 years ago, it wasn’t the concrete jetty that it is today - it was a rickety wooden thing that didn’t even have railings. Jerome remembers fishing at the jetty and enjoying the beach… and how a car once drove off the jetty at high speed!

The story of the speeding car is as dramatic as it was tragic. Jerome writes:

In that incident which happened in 1975, a car had been driven off the jetty at high speed, resulting in the death of a woman passenger. It turned out that the accident was deliberately staged and that the driver who was the husband of the passenger, had entered into a suicide pact with his wife – pulling out at the last minute, leaving his wife to drown … the driver of the car was eevntaully charged with murder and was convicted on a reduced charge of manslaughter.

Back then, the jetty didn’t have railings. The jetty has changed now, but it’s still a focal point for activity on the beach. You can read about Jerome’s memories of fishing at the Mata Jetty here.