Bus runs over foot: Court to determine if SBS at fault

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Bus runs over foot: Court to determine if SBS at fault

AsiaOne
Thursday, Jun 28, 2012

SINGAPORE - The High Court will decide if SBS Transit and its bus driver are liable to pay damages for an injury sustained by a woman whose foot was run over by an SBS bus in March 2010.

Mrs Susan Chan is suing SBS Transit and Lai Tet Chong, the driver involved, for an accident which resulted in her foot being fractured.

Arriving in court in a wheelchair on Wednesday, the 78-year-old said that she was getting ready to board the bus when the incident happened.

In her testimonial, Mrs Chan said she was holding onto the side of the bus to steady herself when the door closed.

She told the court that the bus then started to move off, running over her foot with one of its rear tyres.

She was hospitalised for 80 days as a result of the incident.

While SBS does not deny that the bus ran over her foot, it argues that Mrs Chan had fallen while running after the moving bus.

The transport provider told the court that there was nothing the bus driver could have done to prevent the bus from running over her foot.

A closed-circuit television camera installed on another bus captured footage of the woman falling at the bus bay.

Justice Choo Han Teck is scheduled to visit the bus stop where the accident was said to have happened.

 

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Bus runs over foot: Court throws out case

AsiaOne
Friday, Jun 29, 2012

SINGAPORE - The High Court yesterday threw out a suit by an elderly woman whose foot was run over by an SBS bus, who was claiming damages for an injury sustained.

Mrs Susan Chan, 78, was suing SBS Transit and bus driver Lai Tet Chong over an incident which resulted in her foot being fractured.

The Judge presiding the case, Justice Choo Han Teck, said that there were inconsistencies regarding her various accounts of the accident.

Video footage of the accident also contradicted her claim.

Mrs Chan said that she was in the queue to board the bus at a bus stop in Tanjong Katong on March 14, 2010.

In her testimonial, Mrs Chan said she was holding onto the side of the bus to steady herself when the door closed.

She told the court that the bus then started to move off, running over her foot with one of its rear tyres.

She was hospitalised for 80 days as a result of the incident.

While SBS did not deny that the bus ran over her foot, it argued that Mrs Chan had fallen while running after the moving bus.

The transport provider told the court that there was nothing the bus driver could have done to prevent the bus from running over her foot.

In his comments delivered yesterday, Justice Choo said the video footage of the accident showed that the bus had started moving off when no passenger was boarding or alighting.

The video also showed that Mrs Chan was not in the queue nor near the front of the bus when she fell, he said.

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