{"id":57194,"date":"2026-06-01T19:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57194"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:36:59","slug":"man-taken-to-hospital-after-car-catches-fire-on-sle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=57194","title":{"rendered":"Man taken to hospital after car catches fire on SLE"},"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 man was taken to the hospital after an accident on the <!-- -->Seletar Expressway (SLE)<!-- --> left a car on fire on the morning of <!-- -->June 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In response to queries, the police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted to the accident, which happened in the<!-- --> direction towards BKE at about 8.15am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SCDF said the accident happened before the<!-- --> Lentor Avenue exit<!-- -->. A car was on fire when it arrived at the scene, it 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 car was believed to have skidded along the road, police said. A<!-- --> 34-year-old male car passenger<!-- --> was taken conscious to hospital, they added. SCDF said he was taken to Sengkang General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The car driver, a <!-- -->26-year-old woman<!-- -->,<!-- --> is assisting with ongoing investigations, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a video taken of the accident shared on a <!-- -->motoring chat group<!-- -->, plumes of black smoke can be seen billowing from a car burning on the fourth lane of the six-lane expressway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Dark markings on the road, which appear to be skid marks, can be seen trailing several metres behind the burning vehicle. A Traffic Police car is also seen parked further behind the blaze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-taken-to-hospital-after-car-catches-fire-on-sle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A man was taken to the hospital after an accident on the Seletar Expressway (SLE) left a car on fire on the morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57195,"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-57194","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\/57194","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=57194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}