{"id":48464,"date":"2026-04-30T01:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48464"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:26:36","slug":"9-year-old-cyclist-taken-to-hospital-after-accident-with-car-in-ang-mo-kio-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=48464","title":{"rendered":"9-year-old cyclist taken to hospital after accident with car in Ang Mo Kio; 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 74-year-old man was arrested for reckless driving causing hurt after an accident between a car and a bicycle in Ang Mo Kio on April 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A nine-year-old cyclist was taken conscious to KK Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Singapore Civil Defence Force and police said they were alerted to the accident in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, towards Lentor Gardens, at 2.30pm on April 29. Police added that investigations are ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Dashcam footage of the accident uploaded on social media shows a black car driving through a junction and colliding with a boy as he <!-- -->cycles<!-- --> across the road. The traffic light for vehicles is red <!-- -->at<!-- --> the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The impact sends the boy flying a few metres before he lands <!-- -->face-first on the road<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A woman, who was also cycling, parks her bicycle on the pedestrian refuge island before going to help the boy, the video shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">There is another boy <!-- -->who was riding pillion<!-- --> on the woman\u2019s bicycle. He squats on the island, watching the scene unfold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A construction worker is seen rushing to the victim\u2019s side. The boy who was hit by the car appears to struggle to stand on his own and is carried off the road by the construction worker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The driver of the black car can be seen stepping out of his vehicle before re-entering <!-- -->it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The woman appears to confront the driver after the boy <!-- -->has been<!-- --> carried away. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/9-year-old-cyclist-taken-to-hospital-after-accident-with-car-in-ang-mo-kio-driver-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 74-year-old man was arrested for reckless driving causing hurt after an accident between a car and a bicycle in Ang Mo Kio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48465,"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-48464","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\/48464","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=48464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}