{"id":57011,"date":"2026-06-01T01:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57011"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:44:04","slug":"minibus-driver-pinned-in-seat-after-tengah-crash-taken-to-hospital-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57011","title":{"rendered":"Minibus driver pinned in seat after Tengah crash, taken to hospital, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 50-year-old man was pinned to his seat after his vehicle skidded and hit a lamp post at Tengah Link on Friday (May 29).<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on the Facebook page Singapore Road Accident, over 10 buses were seen stuck along Bukit Batok Road and unable to turn into Tengah Link due to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>At 5.59pm, Tower Transit announced that bus services 452, 453, 674, 831G, 870, 871, 872 and 992 towards Tengah would be diverted.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"239\" width=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftowertransitsg%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0H3owz9twb1Jvh4kmBbRMAk74ThZJUgZQKsuawmRK21wLrZa4529t5L6dyPcqGw6cl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\">\u00a0<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>When contacted by AsiaOne, the police said they were alerted to the accident at around 4pm and the driver was believed to have &#8220;self-skidded&#8221; at the junction.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken unconscious to the hospital, and police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) told AsiaOne they were alerted at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Upon their arrival, a person was found trapped at the driver&#8217;s seat of a van. SCDF rescued the person using hydraulic rescue equipment and he was subsequently taken to National University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Another person had been assessed for minor injuries but declined to be taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>[[nid:737030]]<\/p>\n<p>syarifahsn@asiaone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/minibus-driver-pinned-seat-tengah-link-crash-taken-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-year-old man was pinned to his seat after his vehicle skidded and hit a lamp post at Tengah Link on Friday (May 29). In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57012,"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-57011","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\/57011","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=57011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}