{"id":66357,"date":"2026-07-05T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=66357"},"modified":"2026-07-05T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:22:58","slug":"three-workers-taken-to-hospital-after-garbage-truck-skids-and-flips-over-in-yishun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=66357","title":{"rendered":"Three workers taken to hospital after garbage truck skids and flips over in Yishun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->A garbage truck driver and his two passengers were taken to hospital after the vehicle skidded in Yishun on July 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The accident, which the police and Singapore Civil Defence Force were alerted to at about 11.20am, occurred at the junction of Sembawang Road and Yishun Avenue 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The truck is believed to have skidded at the junction, said the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The 47-year-old driver and his two male passengers, aged 47 and 60, were taken conscious to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, and the driver is assisting with ongoing investigations, said the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Footage of the incident uploaded on the Complaint Singapore Facebook page on July 5 shows a garbage truck flipped onto its side by the road. A lamp post next to the truck appears to be bent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a separate photo, SCDF paramedics are seen attending to three men wearing identical blue tops and sitting on a nearby pavement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Straits Times has contacted the Land Transport Authority for more information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/three-workers-taken-to-hospital-after-garbage-truck-skids-and-crashes-in-yishun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A garbage truck driver and his two passengers were taken to hospital after the vehicle skidded in Yishun on July 5. The accident,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66358,"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-66357","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\/66357","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=66357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}