{"id":49000,"date":"2026-05-01T21:12:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49000"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:12:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:12:44","slug":"4-taken-to-hospital-after-accident-in-old-airport-road-police-investigations-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=49000","title":{"rendered":"4 taken to hospital after accident in Old Airport Road, police investigations ongoing"},"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 <!-- -->Four people<!-- --> were taken to the hospital after an accident involving two cars near the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/patrons-hawkers-express-mixed-feelings-after-old-airport-road-food-centres-upgrading?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">Old Airport Road Food Centre<\/span><\/a> late on <!-- -->April 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In response to queries, the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted to the accident at the junction of<!-- --> Old Airport Road and Cassia Link<!-- --> at <!-- -->10.25pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SCDF said it found a person trapped in the driver\u2019s seat of a car when it arrived. The person was rescued using hydraulic rescue equipment, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Two drivers and two passengers<!-- -->, aged between<!-- --> 27 and 53<!-- -->, were conscious when taken to <!-- -->Tan Tock Seng Hospital<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A fire engine, two tow trucks and at least four police officers were at the accident scene at 11.45pm, The Straits Times observed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The bonnet of one of the cars looked badly damaged, with traffic flow in the area blocked by the accident and the emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Eight bus services were diverted due to the accident, according to an advisory <!-- -->issued at around 10.45pm on the MyTransport app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-list-container\" data-testid=\"bulleted-article-list-test-id\">\n<ul class=\"pl-22 list-disc article-list-wrapper\">\n<li class=\"article-list-item list-item\" data-testid=\"bulleted-article-list-item-test-id\">\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Additional reporting by Laura Chia<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/4-taken-to-hospital-after-accident-in-old-airport-road-police-investigations-ongoing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 Four people were taken to the hospital after an accident involving two cars near the Old Airport Road Food Centre late on April&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49001,"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-49000","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\/49000","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=49000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}