{"id":18555,"date":"2025-12-11T05:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18555"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:14:07","slug":"3-car-collision-on-cte-after-car-swerves-across-4-lanes-driver-arrested-for-suspected-drink-driving-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=18555","title":{"rendered":"3-car collision on CTE after car swerves across 4 lanes; driver arrested for suspected drink driving , Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 44-year-old male driver has been arrested for suspected drink driving following an accident along the Central Expressway (CTE), before the Moulmein Road exit on Sunday (Dec 7).<\/p>\n<p>The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that they were alerted to the accident involving two cars and a taxi at about 3.55am on Dec 7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 65-year-old male taxi driver and another 33-year-old female car passenger were conveyed conscious to the hospital,&#8221; the police said.<\/p>\n<p>SCDF added that the two persons were conveyed to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>AsiaOne understands that the male passenger in the taxi was assessed for minor injuries and declined to be sent to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to Facebook page SG Road Vigilante on Dec 8, a dark-coloured multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) is seen braking suddenly while travelling on the second rightmost lane of the CTE towards the Seletar Expressway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Within seconds, the MPV makes a sharp left turn, swerving across several lanes before colliding with a white sports utility vehicle (SUV) in the leftmost lane.<\/p>\n<p>The impact sends the SUV spinning out of control across the expressway, hitting a taxi in the rightmost lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old male driver of the MPV has been arrested for suspected drink driving.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"476\" width=\"267\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1601348001212084%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The offence of driving under the influence of alcohol carries a penalty of a fine of up to $10,000, jail for up to 12 months, or both.<\/p>\n<p>At an event last month to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/anti-drink-driving-campaign-returns-amid-rise-number-arrests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launch the 2025 Anti-Drink Drive Campaign<\/a>, Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs Sim Ann had said that there were 94 drink-driving accidents from January to August this year \u2014 \u00a0a 17 per cent dip from 113 during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But arrests have increased by four per cent to 1,173 from 1,130.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the campaign, traffic police will be collaborating with valet service providers to remind motorists not to drive if they intend to consume alcohol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:726441]]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:editor@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/cte-accident-drink-driving-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 44-year-old male driver has been arrested for suspected drink driving following an accident along the Central Expressway (CTE), before the Moulmein Road exit on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}