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SINGAPORE \u2013 Two people, including an eight-year-old boy, were taken to hospital after an accident involving six vehicles on the PIE on May 30.<\/p>\n
In a response to queries from The Straits Times, the police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted to an accident involving five cars and a motorcycle on the PIE in the direction of Tuas at about 8.20am on that day.<\/p>\n
A 41-year-old male motorcyclist and an eight-year-old male car passenger were taken conscious to the hospital, the police said.<\/p>\n
SCDF said one person was taken to the National University Hospital, while another was taken to the KK Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n
A post by the Land Transport Authority at around 8.45am on the same day alerted motorists that Lanes 1 and 2 on the PIE in the direction of Tuas after the Stevens Road exit were closed due to a traffic accident.<\/p>\n
In a video of the accident posted on Facebook, two lanes on the three-lane expressway are cordoned off.<\/p>\n
A black van, a silver sport utility vehicle with a damaged rear, a black sedan with a damaged right tail light, and a white motorcycle can be seen within the cordoned area.<\/p>\n
Two white sedans are seen parked farther down the right-most lane. Two SCDF vehicles, two police cars, one tow truck and one fire truck can be seen on-site.<\/p>\n
Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n
According to annual statistics released by the Traffic Police (TP)<\/span><\/a> in February, the number of people injured in traffic accidents increased from 9,342 in 2024, to 9,955 in 2025.<\/p>\n The number of traffic accidents resulting in injuries also went up, from 7,053 cases in 2024, to 7,560 cases in 2025.<\/p>\n TP also said motorcycles accounted for about 15 per cent of Singapore\u2019s total vehicle population in 2025.<\/p>\n However, motorcyclists and pillion riders were involved in 54.8 per cent of all traffic accidents.<\/p>\n The number of accidents involving motorcyclists rose from 3,973 cases in 2024, to 4,227 cases in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Two people, including an eight-year-old boy, were taken to hospital after an accident involving six vehicles on the PIE on May 30. In…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56895,"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-56894","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\/56894","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=56894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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