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Driver killed in double-decker bus accident
Yahoo! NewsroomBy Jeanette Tan | Yahoo! Newsroom – 1 hour 13 minutes ago
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A double-decker bus hits a car, killing the car's driver. (Photo courtesy of Gabriel Benjamin)
A double-decker bus hits a car, killing the car's driver. (Photo courtesy of Gabriel Benjamin)A man was killed when his stationary car was hit by a double-decker bus at the slip road near Bishan MRT Station on Monday afternoon.
The car driver, identified by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) as a Chinese man in his 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics after the SCDF and the police received a call for help at 3:35pm.
SCDF told Yahoo! Singapore that he was found trapped in his seat and had to be removed from the scene by SCDF officers, while his passenger, a Chinese woman in her 50s, was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital with swollen legs and complaints of pain in her right arm.
No other injuries were reported, according to checks done with the SCDF and the police.
The accident occured at the junction between Bishan Road and Bishan Street 14.
23-year-old Low Guan You was travelling on another bus and passed the scene of the accident at about 6:30pm.
He told Yahoo! Singapore that the entire double-decker bus had cleared the railing on the side of the road and was straddling the sidewalk.
“The entire bus was on the sidewalk, and it nearly hit the MRT line,” said the undergraduate, adding that a tow truck was on the scene by that time, and staff were trying to work out how to remove the double-decker bus from the sidewalk.
Low also said that the scene caused slight traffic congestion at the junction where the accident happened.
The double-decker bus nearly ended up on the MRT train track, according to witnesses. (Photo courtesy of Gabriel …
Gabriel Benjamin said the windscreen of the bus was at the barricade overlooking the MRT train tracks.
He added that he "saw a lot of white paint on the road, the white car boot had buckets of white paint in it." He saw the police cordon off the area and there were at least 25 people at the scene.
SBS Transit's senior vice president for corporate communications Tammy Tan said the operator is in touch with the car's passenger "to find out how she is and to see how we can render assistance".
"We are also trying to get in touch with the family of the driver and are assisting the police with their investigations," she said. "We are very sorry that this has happened. Our immediate focus is on helping the injured."
TodayOnline cited eyewitness accounts of the SBS double-decker bus losing control while trying to merge into a slip road. According to the report, the bus then hit the side of the deceased driver’s stationary car that was headed toward Bishan Street 22.
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Driver killed in double-decker bus accident
Yahoo! NewsroomBy Jeanette Tan | Yahoo! Newsroom – 1 hour 13 minutes ago
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A double-decker bus hits a car, killing the car's driver. (Photo courtesy of Gabriel Benjamin)
A double-decker bus hits a car, killing the car's driver. (Photo courtesy of Gabriel Benjamin)A man was killed when his stationary car was hit by a double-decker bus at the slip road near Bishan MRT Station on Monday afternoon.
The car driver, identified by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) as a Chinese man in his 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics after the SCDF and the police received a call for help at 3:35pm.
SCDF told Yahoo! Singapore that he was found trapped in his seat and had to be removed from the scene by SCDF officers, while his passenger, a Chinese woman in her 50s, was sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital with swollen legs and complaints of pain in her right arm.
No other injuries were reported, according to checks done with the SCDF and the police.
The accident occured at the junction between Bishan Road and Bishan Street 14.
23-year-old Low Guan You was travelling on another bus and passed the scene of the accident at about 6:30pm.
He told Yahoo! Singapore that the entire double-decker bus had cleared the railing on the side of the road and was straddling the sidewalk.
“The entire bus was on the sidewalk, and it nearly hit the MRT line,” said the undergraduate, adding that a tow truck was on the scene by that time, and staff were trying to work out how to remove the double-decker bus from the sidewalk.
Low also said that the scene caused slight traffic congestion at the junction where the accident happened.
The double-decker bus nearly ended up on the MRT train track, according to witnesses. (Photo courtesy of Gabriel …
Gabriel Benjamin said the windscreen of the bus was at the barricade overlooking the MRT train tracks.
He added that he "saw a lot of white paint on the road, the white car boot had buckets of white paint in it." He saw the police cordon off the area and there were at least 25 people at the scene.
SBS Transit's senior vice president for corporate communications Tammy Tan said the operator is in touch with the car's passenger "to find out how she is and to see how we can render assistance".
"We are also trying to get in touch with the family of the driver and are assisting the police with their investigations," she said. "We are very sorry that this has happened. Our immediate focus is on helping the injured."
TodayOnline cited eyewitness accounts of the SBS double-decker bus losing control while trying to merge into a slip road. According to the report, the bus then hit the side of the deceased driver’s stationary car that was headed toward Bishan Street 22.
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