A 36-year-old male car driver was taken to a hospital in the early hours of Saturday (June 20) morning after his car overturned in an accident along Serangoon Central.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The accident, involving three taxis and a car, happened around midnight off the drop-off point outside NEX shopping mall.<\/p>\n
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Photographs posted on Singapura Channel’s Facebook page show a white Citroen car overturned on the rightmost of two lanes.<\/p>\n
A taxi was stopped ahead of the car in the same line, while two other taxis were stopped on the leftmost lane.<\/p>\n
At least one Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) ambulance was at the scene, while two traffic police motorcycles blocked off access to the road.<\/p>\n
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In response to AsiaOne’s queries, police and SCDF stated that the car drive was taken conscious to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.<\/p>\n
The police added that the man is assisting with ongoing police investigations.<\/p>\n
Road safety in the spotlight<\/h2>\n
Over the past two weeks, there have been a spate of accidents involving overturned vehicles.<\/p>\n
On June 10, \u00a061-year-old male car driver was arrested for alleged drink-driving after his car overturned in a two-vehicle accident along Ubi Avenue 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n A day prior, passers-by had to break the windshield of an overturned car in Punggol<\/a> during their attempt to rescue the trapped driver.<\/p>\n The driver was also arrested for drink-driving.<\/p>\n Road safety has been in the spotlight after traffic deaths hit a 10-year high in 2025<\/a> with 149 people killed, compared with 141 in 2016.<\/p>\n Responding to a parliamentary question by MP Louis Chua (Sengkang GRC) on Feb 25, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam said that MHA and TP are considering further measures to enhance road safety<\/a> and will make further announcements in due course.<\/p>\n [[nid:737712]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A 36-year-old male car driver was taken to a hospital in the early hours of Saturday (June 20) morning after his car overturned in an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62533,"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-62532","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\/62532","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=62532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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