{"id":33594,"date":"2026-03-05T03:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=33594"},"modified":"2026-03-05T03:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:59:34","slug":"man-33-found-asleep-in-his-car-at-bencoolen-street-arrested-for-drink-driving-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=33594","title":{"rendered":"Man, 33, found asleep in his car at Bencoolen Street, arrested for drink driving, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A man was arrested for drink driving after being found asleep at the wheel near Sim Lim Square.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the incident were posted on Monday (March 2) to the Complaint Singapore Facebook group, showing a blue GetGo car parked across from Burlington Square.<\/p>\n<p>A man in a red shirt was seen being arrested by police officers, and an ambulance was seen parked nearby.<\/p>\n<p>In response to AsiaOne\u2019s queries, the police said that received a call for assistance along Bencoolen Street at 10.10am the same day.<\/p>\n<p>Upon their arrival, officers observed that a man was sleeping at the driver&#8217;s seat inside a stationary car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a 33-year-old male, was arrested for drink-driving.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported and police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:730736]]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/mailto:dana.leong@asiaone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dana.leong@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/man-33-found-asleep-his-car-bencoolen-street-arrested-drink-driving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested for drink driving after being found asleep at the wheel near Sim Lim Square. Photos of the incident were posted on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33595,"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-33594","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\/33594","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=33594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}