{"id":45552,"date":"2026-04-18T22:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45552"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:08:35","slug":"71-year-old-bus-driver-helping-with-police-probe-after-five-vehicle-pile-up-in-pasir-ris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45552","title":{"rendered":"71-year-old bus driver helping with police probe after five-vehicle pile-up in Pasir Ris"},"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 &#8211;<!-- --> <!-- -->A 71- year-old male bus drive<!-- -->r is helping with police investigations after two buses, two cars and a lorry got into an accident in Pasir Ris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In response to queries, <!-- -->the police said they were alerted at 2.30pm to the<!-- --> accident in<!-- --> Pasir Ris Drive 1<!-- --> and that it involved\u00a0t<!-- -->wo buses, two cars and a lorry<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it took three people to Changi General Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A<!-- --> 55-year-old female car driver, a 33-year-old female bus driver and a 47-year-old male lorry driver<!-- --> were conscious when taken to hospital, the police said<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In dashcam footage posted on the SGRV Admin Facebook page, a double-decker SBS Transit bus, believed to be service 39, can be seen crashing into a road divider before hitting a red car on the other side of the road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The red car, reeling from the impact, slams into an oncoming green bus. In another video, a black car and a lorry are also seen to have been damaged in the chain collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SBST, responding to queries, said it is in touch with the three people taken to hospital or their family members, and it has offered to help.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The public transport operator added that neither the SBST bus driver nor passengers were among the three.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/71-year-old-bus-driver-helping-with-police-probe-after-five-vehicle-pile-up-in-pasir-ris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; A 71- year-old male bus driver is helping with police investigations after two buses, two cars and a lorry got into an accident&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45553,"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-45552","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\/45552","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=45552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}