SINGAPORE, Aug. 30 -- A construction worker who caused the death of a senior law professor was sentenced to two years and a month in jail and fined S$2,000.

Natarajan Mohanraj, 28, also received a lifetime driving ban in Singapore after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including causing death by driving without due care, The Straits Times reported today.

The fatal accident occurred on July 7, 2023, when Natarajan looked at his mobile phone while driving a lorry along Upper Thomson Road.

His vehicle mounted the centre divider, smashed through metal railings, uprooted two trees, and collided with the car of 70-year-old Emeritus Professor Tan Yock Lin, a senior National University of Singapore law lecturer.

Tan was reported to have s...