{"id":24991,"date":"2026-01-01T21:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24991"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:25:35","slug":"man-linked-to-hit-and-run-accidents-in-kallang-area-involving-van-and-8-vehicles-helping-with-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=24991","title":{"rendered":"Man linked to hit-and-run accidents in Kallang area involving van and 8 vehicles helping with probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A <!-- -->65-year-old man who was allegedly driving a van that <!-- -->collided with four cars, two vans, and two lorries is helping with police investigations.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police, in response to queries, said they were alerted <!-- -->at about 1.35pm on Dec 31 <!-- -->to the multiple hit-and-run accidents involving vehicles in T<!-- -->owner Road, Serangoon Road and Lavender Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The van is believed to have later skidded in Raffles Avenue heading towards Stamford Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The man was conscious when he was taken to the hospital, the police added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In video footage uploaded on the SGRV Facebook page, an orange van can be seen heading<!-- --> <!-- -->out of a carpark even though the barrier is down, before turning into the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In another video <!-- -->on the same Facebook page<!-- -->, it can be seen going<!-- --> against the flow of traffic before crashing into a stationary car in Lavender Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In photos posted to the SGRV Front Man Facebook page, <!-- -->the van \u2014 badly damaged by now \u2014<!-- --> appears to have crashed <!-- -->into a traffic signpost on a pedestrian walkway in Raffles Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The driver appears to be conscious, with his hand and head resting on the steering wheel. The van\u2019s windscreen is cracked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">More people were killed or injured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/injuries-deaths-on-singapores-roads-rise-in-h1-2025-accidents-due-to-red-light-violation-also-up?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">traffic accidents in the first half of 2025<\/p>\n<p><\/a> compared with the same period a year ago, according to figures published in the latest Traffic Police mid-year report in<!-- --> <!-- -->August 2025.<!-- --> <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The number of accidents resulting in injuries also went up from <!-- -->3,437 in the first half of 2024 to 3,740 in the first six months of 2025.<!-- --> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Accidents - traffic\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Accidents &#8211; traffic<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Police\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Police<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Heavy vehicles\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Heavy vehicles<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-linked-to-hit-and-run-accidents-in-kallang-area-involving-van-and-8-vehicles-helping-with-probe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 65-year-old man who was allegedly driving a van that collided with four cars, two vans, and two lorries is helping with police&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24992,"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-24991","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\/24991","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=24991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}