{"id":20112,"date":"2025-12-15T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=20112"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:25:54","slug":"nine-people-remain-in-hospital-after-bus-collision-in-jurong-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=20112","title":{"rendered":"Nine people remain in hospital after bus collision in Jurong West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Police earlier said that a <span>49-year-old male bus driver was assisting with investigations into the collision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked for an update on the incident&#8217;s investigation, LTA and the bus operators said Tower Transit was working closely with the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeparately, this morning, Tower Transit conducted mandatory safety briefings across our bus depots to reinforce critical safety protocols and ensure our bus captains stay focused on road safety,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>Tower Transit has been assisting affected passengers with all relevant claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur teams are still working hard to reach about 10 passengers who have been discharged but have not spoken to us,\u201d said LTA, Tower Transit and SBS Transit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge these passengers or their family members to contact us at their earliest convenience so we can offer our support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Passengers who were on board the affected buses can seek assistance with Tower Transit at 1800 248 0950 or at the email address <\/span><span class=\"spamspan\"><span class=\"u\">feedback<\/span> [at] <span class=\"d\">towertransit.sg<\/span><span class=\"t\"> (feedback[at]towertransit[dot]sg)<\/span><\/span><span> or with SBS Transit at 1800 287 2727 or at the email address <\/span><span class=\"spamspan\"><span class=\"u\">customercare<\/span> [at] <span class=\"d\">sbstransit.com.sg<\/span><span class=\"t\"> (customercare[at]sbstransit[dot]com[dot]sg)<\/span><\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Footage and photos of the collision&#8217;s aftermath obtained by 8world showed several injured people sitting and lying on the ground, with one image showing an individual lying on the floor of one of the buses.<\/p>\n<p><span>One person had to be rescued from one of the buses by officers from the Singapore Civil Defence Force.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/nine-people-remain-hospital-jurong-west-bus-collision-tower-transit-sbs-lta-5592151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police earlier said that a 49-year-old male bus driver was assisting with investigations into the collision.\u00a0 When asked for an update on the incident&#8217;s investigation,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--vmeF_v6O--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/12\/14\/bus-collision.png?itok=6SuBpCgz","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3239,6765,184,9575,121,4575,7625],"class_list":["post-20112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-bus","tag-collision","tag-hospital","tag-jurong","tag-people","tag-remain","tag-west","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20112","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=20112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}