{"id":51355,"date":"2026-05-10T20:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51355"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:12:38","slug":"elderly-woman-rescued-after-being-pinned-under-car-near-jalan-besar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51355","title":{"rendered":"Elderly woman rescued after being pinned under car near Jalan Besar"},"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 An 84-year-old pedestrian was extricated by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) after being pinned underneath a car following an accident near Jalan Besar on May 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SCDF said it was alerted to the accident near Block 25 Jalan Berseh at 10.15am that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Its officers found the woman trapped underneath a car and freed her using hydraulic rescue equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The elderly woman was later taken conscious to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, said the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A photo of the rescue, published by Chinese media outlet Shin Min Daily News, shows more than 10 SCDF personnel surrounding the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A passer-by told the newspaper that it took SCDF officers around 15 minutes to rescue the woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Shin Min reported that the man behind the wheel of the car was believed to be a private-hire driver. He told the Shin Min reporter that he was picking up a passenger when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/elderly-woman-rescued-by-scdf-after-being-pinned-under-car-near-jalan-besar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 An 84-year-old pedestrian was extricated by the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) after being pinned underneath a car following an accident near Jalan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51356,"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-51355","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\/51355","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=51355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}