TWO public transport drivers were banned from driving for three years for causing the death of two pedestrians at crossings earlier this year.

In the first case, Chan Fun Fook, 59, then a taxi driver, was sentenced on Tuesday to a week's jail and banned from driving for three years.

This was for failing to give way to Madam Lee Lai Kim, 76, at a signalised pedestrian crossing at the junction of Ang Mo Kio Street 31 and Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8 on Feb 11.

He was making a right turn when he hit Madam Lee, who died of her injuries about two hours later. Chan is appealing against the sentence.

In the same court, former SBS driver Aw Boon Hui, 61, was fined $8,000 and banned from driving for three years after he admitted causing the death of cleaner Quek Moh Tiong, 65, along Pasir Panjang Road on Feb 18.

Aw, now a pump attendant, was driving Service 51 along the road near Haw Par Villa on the first day of Chinese New Year when he failed to keep a proper lookout and hit Mr Quek, who was crossing while the red man signal light was on.

He died the next morning of head injury.