{"id":61474,"date":"2026-06-17T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61474"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:55:47","slug":"driver-who-crashed-into-school-bus-carrying-acs-kids-to-be-charged-with-dangerous-driving-drink-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61474","title":{"rendered":"Driver who crashed into school bus carrying ACS kids to be charged with dangerous driving, drink driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: A 29-year-old man who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/bukit-timah-accident-school-bus-car-fire-driver-passengers-arrested-4174361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crashed his car into a school bus<\/a> while speeding in 2024 will be charged on Thursday (Jun 18) with a slew of offences, including drink driving.<\/p>\n<p>The police said they were alerted on Mar 6, 2024, at about 6am that a black car had driven and stopped against the flow of traffic along Cavenagh Road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen police officers arrived and approached the car, the driver sped off,\u201d said the Singapore Police Force (SPF) in a press release on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>About 15 minutes later, officers spotted the car speeding along Bukit Timah Road towards Upper Bukit Timah Road.<\/p>\n<p>It weaved dangerously through traffic between Coronation Road and Anamalai Avenue, reaching an average speed of at least 114 kmh, said the police.<\/p>\n<p>This exceeded the speed limit along that stretch of the road, they added.<\/p>\n<p>The car ran a red light at the traffic junction of Bukit Timah Road and Sixth Avenue, and collided with a school bus making a U-turn there.<\/p>\n<p>Four students from Anglo-Chinese School (Junior) were on the bus at that time, the school told CNA then.<\/p>\n<p>The car veered to the left, collided with a lamp post, and came to a stop on a grass verge where it caught fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/driver-charged-drink-driving-acs-junior-school-bus-crash-2024-6189856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: A 29-year-old man who crashed his car into a school bus while speeding in 2024 will be charged on Thursday (Jun 18) with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61475,"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-61474","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\/61474","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=61474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}