{"id":56962,"date":"2026-05-31T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56962"},"modified":"2026-05-31T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:56:00","slug":"taxi-catches-fire-in-ang-mo-kio-accident-cabby-passenger-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=56962","title":{"rendered":"Taxi catches fire in Ang Mo Kio accident; cabby, passenger hurt"},"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 cabby and his passenger<!-- --> were taken to hospital after an accident in Ang Mo Kio <!-- -->on the afternoon of May 30 left the taxi on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a response to media queries, the police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that they were alerted to the accident at the junction of <!-- -->Yio Chu Kang Road and Hougang Avenue 2<!-- --> at around <!-- -->3.50pm that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A car was on fire when it arrived, SCDF said, adding that <!-- -->its officers <!-- -->extinguished the fire with a water jet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police said a<!-- --> 68-year-old male taxi driver and his 58-year-old female passenger<!-- --> were taken conscious to hospital. SCDF said <!-- -->they<!-- --> were taken to <!-- -->Tan Tock Seng Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a video taken of the accident site posted on Facebook page Singapore Incidents, a yellow taxi appears to have crashed into a tree planted on the central divider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">White smoke can be seen from under the engine\u2019s hood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Photos of the accident site posted on Facebook page Singapura Channel show the taxi\u2019s engine hood missing, with its engine compartment exposed. The vehicle\u2019s bumper appears deformed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Straits Times has contacted ComfortDelGro for more information.<\/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<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/taxi-catches-fire-in-ang-mo-kio-accident-cabby-passenger-hurt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A cabby and his passenger were taken to hospital after an accident in Ang Mo Kio on the afternoon of May 30 left&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56963,"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-56962","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\/56962","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=56962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}