{"id":37216,"date":"2026-03-18T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37216"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:21:42","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-bugis-accident-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37216","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after Bugis accident, driver arrested"},"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 <!-- -->A driver was arrested following a fatal accident in Bugis<!-- --> <!-- -->on <!-- -->March 17<!-- -->. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In response to queries from The Straits Times, the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted to an accident at about 5.15pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The accident \u2013 involving <!-- -->a car and a pedestrian<!-- --> \u2013 happened along <!-- -->Bencoolen Street towards Bras Basah Road<!-- -->, said the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A <!-- -->66-year-old female pedestrian<!-- --> was taken unconscious to <!-- -->Tan Tock Seng Hospital<!-- -->, where she subsequently died, said the authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Another person was assessed for minor injuries, but they declined to be taken to hospital, said SCDF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The <!-- -->male<!-- --> motorist, <!-- -->55<!-- -->, was arrested for careless driving causing death, said the police, adding that investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A photo of the aftermath of the accident shared by an ST reader shows a car among some plants in front of Sunshine Plaza. Several police officers can be seen in the photo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"responsive-iframe-base none none-embed\" title=\"none embed\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/vt.tiktok.com\/ZSuC7ugfj\/\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer;falseclipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\" loading=\"eager\" data-testid=\"responsiveIframe\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/pedestrian-dies-after-bugis-accident-driver-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A driver was arrested following a fatal accident in Bugis on March 17. In response to queries from The Straits Times, the police&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37217,"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-37216","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\/37216","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=37216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}