{"id":58802,"date":"2026-06-07T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=58802"},"modified":"2026-06-07T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:25:02","slug":"pedestrian-86-taken-to-hospital-after-accident-involving-motorcycle-in-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=58802","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian, 86, taken to hospital after accident involving motorcycle in Chinatown"},"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 <!-- -->86-year-old pedestrian<!-- --> was taken to hospital after an accident at the<!-- --> junction of Upper Cross Street and Eu Tong Sen Street on June 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The<!-- --> police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said on June 7<!-- --> that they were alerted to the accident, which <!-- -->involved a motorcycle and a pedestrian,<!-- --> at noon<!-- --> on June 5<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police said the <!-- -->male<!-- --> pedestrian was taken conscious to hospital. The SCDF said it took one person to <!-- -->Singapore General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A <!-- -->21-year-old motorcyclist<!-- --> is helping with investigations, said police.<\/p>\n<p>The Straits Times reported that Singapore roads are at their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/road-traffic-fatalities-hit-10-year-high-in-2025-with-149-dead-elderly-deaths-more-than-double?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"font-body-baseline-regular inline\" data-testid=\"paragraph-test-id\">most dangerous in years<\/span><\/a>, with traffic deaths hitting a 10-year high of 149 in 2025, compared with 141 in 2016.\u00a0There were 142 deaths in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The number of people getting injured also increased, rising from 9,342 in 2024 to 9,955 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The overall number of elderly folk who died in traffic accidents had more than doubled from 11 in 2024 to 27 in 2025. All were pedestrians.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-list-container\" data-testid=\"bulleted-article-list-test-id\">\n<ul class=\"pl-22 list-disc article-list-wrapper\">\n<li class=\"article-list-item list-item\" data-testid=\"bulleted-article-list-item-test-id\">\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Additional reporting by Ian Cheng<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/pedestrian-86-taken-to-hospital-after-accident-involving-motorcycle-in-chinatown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 An 86-year-old pedestrian was taken to hospital after an accident at the junction of Upper Cross Street and Eu Tong Sen Street on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58803,"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-58802","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\/58802","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=58802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}