{"id":25209,"date":"2026-01-02T17:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=25209"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:31:35","slug":"traffic-police-officer-injured-while-chasing-van-in-choa-chu-kang-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=25209","title":{"rendered":"Traffic police officer injured while chasing van in Choa Chu Kang; driver arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The Singapore Civil Defence Force told CNA that they had been alerted to an accident at the same location at around 5.50pm on Thursday, and two people were taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>According to the police, the 25-year-old officer and the van driver were conscious while taken to hospital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The officer is in stable condition and the van driver was later arrested for a slew of offences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>A knife, a baton, and items suspected to be controlled drugs and drug-related paraphernalia were found inside his vehicle, said police<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The 34-year-old driver has been detained for reckless driving causing hurt, driving without a valid licence, driving without valid insurance, failing to stop when ordered by a police officer in uniform, using a forged licence, possession of scheduled weapons and various suspected drug-related offences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cThe suspected drug-related offences have been referred to the Central Narcotics Bureau,\u201d said the police, adding that investigations were ongoing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/traffic-police-injured-van-driver-arrested-choa-chu-kang-chase-5783431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Singapore Civil Defence Force told CNA that they had been alerted to an accident at the same location at around 5.50pm on Thursday, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--NHf7q8ZY--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/01\/02\/choa_chu_kang_police_chase.png?itok=46VoPzM0","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1344,6992,1981,1982,4916,2468,1983,1348,1273,2996,5370],"class_list":["post-25209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-arrested","tag-chasing","tag-choa","tag-chu","tag-driver","tag-injured","tag-kang","tag-officer","tag-police","tag-traffic","tag-van","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25209","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=25209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}