An electric bicycle exploded and caught fire at Balestier Road in the early hours of March 22.<\/p>\n
Stomper Lawrence<\/strong> said the male rider and his female passenger managed to jump off the e-bike to safety.<\/p>\n Lawrence was in a passing car and took a video of the e-bike engulfed in flames on the road as a man stood in front of it, watching it burn.<\/p>\n \u201cThe bike literally exploded in front of me. It was a huge fire,\u201d recounted the Stomper.<\/p>\n \u201cI stopped my car as I was afraid the flames might burn my car too.\u201d<\/p>\n In response to a Stomp query, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the fire at about 12.15am.<\/p>\n SCDF extinguished the fire using a hose reel and took one person to Singapore General Hospital.<\/p>\n The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n In 2025, Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam said in a written reply<\/a> to parliamentary questions that there were 187 fires involving active mobility devices over the last five years.<\/p>\n Of these, about 46 per cent involved personal mobility devices, 42 per cent e-bikes and 12 per cent personal mobility aids.<\/p>\n Have something to say? Join in!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n See something interesting? Contribute<\/a> your story to us.<\/p>\n![\"Stomp](\"https:\/\/www.stomp.sg\/assets\/stomp-comment-COLiWNMD.png\")
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