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Passenger alights from moving taxi in middle of ECP after cab driver suffers blackout
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Timothy Goh
The Straits Times
Mar 10, 2019
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SINGAPORE - Taxi operator Comfort DelGro has apologised after one of its drivers fainted while driving on the East Coast Parkway (ECP), colliding with the centre divider and causing his passenger to alight in the middle of the expressway.
Dashcam footage of the incident, taken around 1.10pm on Friday (March 8) shows a Comfort taxi swerving in and out of the rightmost lane on the Benjamin Sheares bridge.
The cab is seen colliding with the centre divider of the bridge, appearing to leave a dent in the barrier, before swerving across another two lanes.
Other road users are seen slowing down or moving out of the way to avoid the taxi.
Passenger alights moving taxi in middle of ECP
As it slows down, its left passenger door opens and a man steps out. He closes the door and quickly moves to the side of the road.
A silver car drives into the path of the cab, seemingly in an attempt to block it, but the taxi manoeuvers around it and drives off.
The taxi's passenger is soon picked up by another car.
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"I don't understand," says the passenger of the car recording the footage, before the video ends. Many netizens also expressed confusion as to what had caused the taxi driver and passenger to act the way they had.
On Sunday, Comfort DelGro's group chief corporate communications officer, Ms Tammy Tan, told The Straits Times that the cabby in the video had "blacked out momentarily".
She said that when the driver regained consciousness, he realised that his passenger had disembarked.
"He wanted to get off the expressway to seek medical help and continued driving slowly until he was out of the expressway and at the Rochor Road exit gantry," she said.
The driver then proceeded to call for assistance, she said.
He is currently warded at a hospital for observation.
Ms Tan added that Comfort would like to reach out to the passenger who was on board the taxi to find out about his well-being, and that the company has been unable to contact him thus far as he had hailed the taxi on the street.
"We would like to apologise to him and all affected motorists for this incident," she said.
The police confirmed that a report had been lodged, and are investigating the incident.
This article was first published in The Straits Times. Permission required for reproduction.
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Passenger alights from moving taxi on ECP after cabby blacks out; ComfortDelGro apologises
Video of Cabby allows passenger to alight in the middle of expressway
Published
Mar 10, 2019, 11:50 am SGT
Updated
3 hours ago
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Timothy Goh
SINGAPORE - Taxi operator ComfortDelGro has apologised after one of its drivers fainted while driving on the East Coast Parkway (ECP), colliding with the centre divider and causing his passenger to alight in the middle of the expressway.
Dashcam footage of the incident, taken around 1.10pm on Friday (March 8) shows a Comfort taxi swerving in and out of the rightmost lane on the Benjamin Sheares bridge.
The cab is seen colliding with the centre divider of the bridge, appearing to leave a dent in the barrier, before swerving across another two lanes.
Other road users are seen slowing down or moving out of the way to avoid the taxi.
As it slows down, its left passenger door opens and a man steps out. He closes the door and quickly moves to the side of the road.
A silver car drives into the path of the cab, seemingly in an attempt to block it, but the taxi manoeuvers around it and drives off.
The taxi's passenger is soon picked up by another car.
"I don't understand," says the passenger of the car recording the footage, before the video ends. Many netizens also expressed confusion as to what had caused the taxi driver and passenger to act the way they had.
On Sunday, ComfortDelGro's group chief corporate communications officer, Ms Tammy Tan, told The Straits Times that the cabby in the video had "blacked out momentarily".
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She said that when the driver regained consciousness, he realised that his passenger had disembarked.
"He wanted to get off the expressway to seek medical help and continued driving slowly until he was out of the expressway and at the Rochor Road exit gantry," she said.
The driver then proceeded to call for assistance, she said.
He is currently warded at a hospital for observation.
Ms Tan added that Comfort is currently in touch with the passenger who was on board the taxi, and will be sending a hamper and vouchers to him as a gesture of goodwill.
On behalf of the company, she also thanked the driver of the private car that stopped to pick up the stranded passenger.
"We would like to apologise to all affected motorists for this incident," she said.
The police confirmed that a report had been lodged, and are investigating the incident.
Passenger alights from moving taxi in middle of ECP after cab driver suffers blackout
PHOTO: YouTube/The Straits Times
Timothy Goh
The Straits Times
Mar 10, 2019
Facebook Twitter Google+
SINGAPORE - Taxi operator Comfort DelGro has apologised after one of its drivers fainted while driving on the East Coast Parkway (ECP), colliding with the centre divider and causing his passenger to alight in the middle of the expressway.
Dashcam footage of the incident, taken around 1.10pm on Friday (March 8) shows a Comfort taxi swerving in and out of the rightmost lane on the Benjamin Sheares bridge.
The cab is seen colliding with the centre divider of the bridge, appearing to leave a dent in the barrier, before swerving across another two lanes.
Other road users are seen slowing down or moving out of the way to avoid the taxi.
Passenger alights moving taxi in middle of ECP
As it slows down, its left passenger door opens and a man steps out. He closes the door and quickly moves to the side of the road.
A silver car drives into the path of the cab, seemingly in an attempt to block it, but the taxi manoeuvers around it and drives off.
The taxi's passenger is soon picked up by another car.
Read also
Police, ComfortDelGro investigating after cabby hits road divider twice and lets man alight on ECP
"I don't understand," says the passenger of the car recording the footage, before the video ends. Many netizens also expressed confusion as to what had caused the taxi driver and passenger to act the way they had.
On Sunday, Comfort DelGro's group chief corporate communications officer, Ms Tammy Tan, told The Straits Times that the cabby in the video had "blacked out momentarily".
She said that when the driver regained consciousness, he realised that his passenger had disembarked.
"He wanted to get off the expressway to seek medical help and continued driving slowly until he was out of the expressway and at the Rochor Road exit gantry," she said.
The driver then proceeded to call for assistance, she said.
He is currently warded at a hospital for observation.
Ms Tan added that Comfort would like to reach out to the passenger who was on board the taxi to find out about his well-being, and that the company has been unable to contact him thus far as he had hailed the taxi on the street.
"We would like to apologise to him and all affected motorists for this incident," she said.
The police confirmed that a report had been lodged, and are investigating the incident.
This article was first published in The Straits Times. Permission required for reproduction.
More about
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...ecp-after-cab-driver-suffers-blackout-comfort
Passenger alights from moving taxi on ECP after cabby blacks out; ComfortDelGro apologises
Video of Cabby allows passenger to alight in the middle of expressway
Published
Mar 10, 2019, 11:50 am SGT
Updated
3 hours ago
Facebook Twitter Email
Timothy Goh
SINGAPORE - Taxi operator ComfortDelGro has apologised after one of its drivers fainted while driving on the East Coast Parkway (ECP), colliding with the centre divider and causing his passenger to alight in the middle of the expressway.
Dashcam footage of the incident, taken around 1.10pm on Friday (March 8) shows a Comfort taxi swerving in and out of the rightmost lane on the Benjamin Sheares bridge.
The cab is seen colliding with the centre divider of the bridge, appearing to leave a dent in the barrier, before swerving across another two lanes.
Other road users are seen slowing down or moving out of the way to avoid the taxi.
As it slows down, its left passenger door opens and a man steps out. He closes the door and quickly moves to the side of the road.
A silver car drives into the path of the cab, seemingly in an attempt to block it, but the taxi manoeuvers around it and drives off.
The taxi's passenger is soon picked up by another car.
"I don't understand," says the passenger of the car recording the footage, before the video ends. Many netizens also expressed confusion as to what had caused the taxi driver and passenger to act the way they had.
On Sunday, ComfortDelGro's group chief corporate communications officer, Ms Tammy Tan, told The Straits Times that the cabby in the video had "blacked out momentarily".
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She said that when the driver regained consciousness, he realised that his passenger had disembarked.
"He wanted to get off the expressway to seek medical help and continued driving slowly until he was out of the expressway and at the Rochor Road exit gantry," she said.
The driver then proceeded to call for assistance, she said.
He is currently warded at a hospital for observation.
Ms Tan added that Comfort is currently in touch with the passenger who was on board the taxi, and will be sending a hamper and vouchers to him as a gesture of goodwill.
On behalf of the company, she also thanked the driver of the private car that stopped to pick up the stranded passenger.
"We would like to apologise to all affected motorists for this incident," she said.
The police confirmed that a report had been lodged, and are investigating the incident.
