{"id":61766,"date":"2026-06-18T19:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61766"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:53:50","slug":"man-to-be-charged-after-driving-erratically-and-crashing-into-taxi-at-kallang-bahru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=61766","title":{"rendered":"Man to be charged after driving erratically and crashing into taxi at Kallang Bahru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: A 36-year-old man will be charged in court on Friday (Jun 19) for multiple traffic offences, as well as possession of a scheduled weapon and unauthorised possession of weapons.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release on Thursday, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said it was alerted to an accident involving a car and a taxi along Kallang Bahru towards Lavender Street on Wednesday at about 8am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 60-year-old male taxi driver and his 43-year-old female passenger were conveyed conscious to the hospital,&#8221; the police said.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities found that the suspect had driven erratically and collided with a taxi from the opposite direction.<\/p>\n<p>After the collision, he abandoned his car and fled the scene before the police arrived, obstructing traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suspected drugs, drug-related paraphernalia, vaporisers and a knuckleduster were found in the car and seized as case exhibits,&#8221; SPF said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested within five hours of the report. Two knives believed to be his were also seized during his arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/police-man-charged-court-crash-taxi-kallang-bahru-6193011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: A 36-year-old man will be charged in court on Friday (Jun 19) for multiple traffic offences, as well as possession of a scheduled weapon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--0vAbu0KJ--\/c_crop,h_720,w_1280,x_0,y_137\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/06\/18\/6167968363485794402.jpg?itok=yXJbBjnf","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3098,141,6007,27,24973,10392,140,3346],"class_list":["post-61766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-bahru","tag-charged","tag-crashing","tag-driving","tag-erratically","tag-kallang","tag-man","tag-taxi","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61766","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=61766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}