A bright yellow Porsche Cayman, two boys aged seven and eight perched on the trunk, gripping an oversized aftermarket wing as the car rolled down a residential street in Singapore. That was October 2025. By this week, the driver was standing in court.
Prem Anam Sugunakumar, 40, pleaded guilty to one count of committing a rash act endangering the personal safety of children under 14. The sentence: a SGD$5,000 fine, the maximum financial penalty allowed, and a six-month license suspension.
The incident happened on Dairy Farm Lane, a quiet road near a shopping mall. Sugunakumar apparently thought it would make for a fun outing with his sons. The boys sat backward on the rear of the two-seat sports car, holding on to the wing while their father drove.
His wife posted a clip of the stunt on social media. A separate motorist witnessed the whole thing and filed a police report. Between the video evidence and the eyewitness account, authorities had more than enough to track Sugunakumar down and arrest him in March.
The Cayman, for anyone unfamiliar, is a mid-engine two-seater with no rear seats, no back bench, no third row hidden under a cargo cover. There is physically nowhere for passengers beyond the driver and one other occupant. The trunk lid was never engineered to support two children at any speed, on any road, under any circumstances.
Deputy Principal District Judge Kessler Soh made clear the court hoped this penalty would deter Sugunakumar from further violations. That hope may need reinforcing. According to The Straits Times, this is not his first driving offense.
Singapore does not mess around with traffic law. The city-state’s road regulations are among the strictest in the world, with heavy fines, point systems, and mandatory suspensions applied with consistency. Owning a car there already costs a small fortune in certificates of entitlement and taxes. Losing the right to drive one, even temporarily, stings in a way it might not elsewhere.
The two boys walked away unharmed. That is the only piece of genuine good news in this story. A Cayman’s rear deck offers no restraints, no railings, no grip beyond an aftermarket wing bolted on for aerodynamics, not child safety.
Sugunakumar will get his license back sometime in early 2026. The fine has been paid. The court record now exists. Whether the lesson sticks is another question, given his prior history behind the wheel.
His sons, meanwhile, got one hell of a playground story. The price of that story was $5,000 and half a year without a driver’s license. The price could have been catastrophically higher if that short ride on Dairy Farm Lane had ended with a sudden stop instead of a social media post.
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