{"id":25055,"date":"2026-01-02T04:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=25055"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:16:39","slug":"van-driver-allegedly-involved-in-multiple-hit-and-runs-before-crashing-into-signpost-along-raffles-avenue-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=25055","title":{"rendered":"Van driver allegedly involved in multiple hit-and-runs before crashing into signpost along Raffles Avenue, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A van was allegedly involved in multiple hit-and-run accidents on Wednesday (Dec 31) along Towner Road and Lavender Street, before crashing into a signpost along Raffles Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>In three separate posts uploaded to Facebook groups SGRV and SGRV Front Man, the same orange Nippon Paint van was<strong> <\/strong>seen involved in multiple road incidents, all of which occurred on different roads.<\/p>\n<p>In the first post, the driver of the Toyota Hiace is alleged to have been involved in a hit-and-run accident near Block 149A Towner Road, before being accused of fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>An uploaded video showed the van ramming through a car park barricade in the process of doing so.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-uuid=\"4173075e-9874-47db-9e66-ce80157d707f\" data-entity-type=\"file\" height=\"630\" width=\"1200\" src=\"According to the post, the van crashed through the barricade after attempting to flee the scene, along Towner Road. PHOTO: Screengrab\/Facebook\/SGRV\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to SGRV, the incident occurred at 1.32pm.<\/p>\n<p>The same van is then seen driving against traffic and crashing into another car waiting at a traffic junction along Lavender Street, before reversing and driving away without stopping.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-uuid=\"c5e5453b-06a5-4a3c-9a61-e70390bd88bb\" data-entity-type=\"file\" height=\"630\" width=\"1200\" src=\"According to netizens, the van went against traffic, crashed into a car at a traffic junction, then drove off without stopping along Lavender Street. PHOTO: Screengrab\/Facebook\/SGRV\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At this point, the driver&#8217;s side mirror appears to be dislodged.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the same van is seen crashed into a signpost along Raffles Avenue, near the Singapore Flyer, in another post. \u00a0A man in a white-coloured shirt can be seen behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-uuid=\"d59522f1-df3c-4ffd-b275-3244475ce739\" data-entity-type=\"file\" height=\"630\" width=\"1200\" src=\"The same van is seen crashed into a signpost along Raffles Avenue. PHOTO: Facebook\/SGRV Front Man\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a statement to AsiaOne on Thursday, police said that it was alerted to multiple hit-and-run accidents allegedly caused by a van along Towner Road, Serangoon Road and Lavender Street.<\/p>\n<p>The van driver allegedly collided into four cars, two vans, and two lorries.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was then believed to have self-skidded along Raffles Avenue towards Stamford Avenue, said police.<\/p>\n<p>A 65-year-old male van driver was conveyed conscious to the hospital and is assisting with investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:daoen.wong@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">daoen.wong@asiaone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[[nid:727422]]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/van-driver-multiple-hit-and-run-accidents-signpost-raffles-ave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A van was allegedly involved in multiple hit-and-run accidents on Wednesday (Dec 31) along Towner Road and Lavender Street, before crashing into a signpost along&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25056,"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-25055","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\/25055","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=25055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}