{"id":34921,"date":"2026-03-09T19:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=34921"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:43:36","slug":"we-thought-itll-be-our-last-day-on-earth-singaporean-recalls-chaos-after-collision-with-car-and-lorry-in-malaysia-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=34921","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We thought it&#8217;ll be our last day on earth&#8217;: Singaporean recalls &#8216;chaos&#8217; after collision with car and lorry in Malaysia, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<p>A Singaporean couple escaped with only minor injuries after their car flipped on an expressway in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>In a TikTok video shared on Saturday (March 7), user rr_unscripted said that he was driving from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur with his wife when another car &#8220;suddenly entered&#8221; their lane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything turned to chaos,&#8221; he recounted.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the accident posted on Instagram showed the couple&#8217;s sports utility vehicle (SUV) colliding into a lorry, before spinning and hitting a road divider.<\/p>\n<p>The car flipped before landing upright on the opposite side of the expressway.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background-color:#FFF;border-radius:3px;border-width:0;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DVmYdu5k8WN\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"\/>\n<p>&#8220;By logic, we shouldn\u2019t have survived,&#8221; the man said. &#8220;We both thought that it will be our last day on earth and we will never see our babies again forever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surely a traumatic and unforgettable experience especially on our 18th anniversary&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man said that the accident is a &#8220;reminder that life can change in a second&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AsiaOne has contacted the Singaporean driver for more information.<\/p>\n<p>The Star reported that there were an average of 1,729 traffic accidents and 14 fatalities in Malaysia per day across 2024.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Global Burden of Disease 2024 report, Malaysia had the second-highest road fatality rate among Asean nations in 2021 with 23.7 deaths per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian police has been publishing daily figures on the total number of road accidents and deaths since March 2024 \u2014 in a move to raise awareness among road users of the seriousness of road accidents.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:730704]]<\/p>\n<p>chingshijie@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/we-thought-itll-be-our-last-day-earth-singaporean-recalls-chaos-after-collision-car-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Singaporean couple escaped with only minor injuries after their car flipped on an expressway in Malaysia. In a TikTok video shared on Saturday (March&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34922,"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-34921","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\/34921","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=34921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}