{"id":30058,"date":"2026-02-20T20:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30058"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:16:36","slug":"cops-looking-for-driver-who-ditched-car-after-police-chase-from-paya-lebar-to-punggol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=30058","title":{"rendered":"Cops looking for driver who ditched car after police chase from Paya Lebar to Punggol"},"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 <!-- -->Police<!-- --> are <!-- -->searching for<!-- --> a driver who sped off when <!-- -->asked<!-- --> to stop for a check in <!-- -->Paya Lebar in the early hours of the first day of Chinese New Year<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police<!-- --> said<!-- --> their <!-- -->officers were conducting a roadblock on <!-- -->Feb 17 <!-- -->in<!-- --> Airport Road towards KPE<!-- -->, where they signalled for the car to stop <!-- -->at about 2.20am<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The driver did not comply and sped off. The traffic police gave chase and found the car in <!-- -->Edgedale Plains in Punggol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Chinese-language news <!-- -->outlet<!-- --> Shin Min Daily News reported that members of the public saw police cars chasing a <!-- -->red BMW near<!-- --> <!-- -->Hougang Street 12 and Rivervale Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">It added that<!-- --> the vehicle is a<!-- --> Malaysia-registered<!-- --> car<!-- --> and was <!-- -->abandoned<!-- --> at <!-- -->Block 122A Edgedale Plains<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to Google Maps, the distance between the <!-- -->Air Force Training Command in<!-- --> Airport Road and<!-- --> Block 122A Edgedale Plains<!-- --> is <!-- -->at least 9km <!-- -->by car<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Shin Min <!-- -->quoted a grocery shop employee who saw the car being towed away at about 8am that morning but the driver was nowhere in sight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/cops-looking-for-driver-who-ditched-car-after-police-chase-from-paya-lebar-to-punggol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Police are searching for a driver who sped off when asked to stop for a check in Paya Lebar in the early hours&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30059,"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-30058","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\/30058","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=30058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}