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SINGAPORE \u2013 A 73-year-old woman died after an accident involving her personal mobility device (PMD) and a lorry in Toa Payoh on the morning of July 7.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old lorry driver was arrested for dangerous driving causing death and suspected drug-related offences after drug paraphernalia was found in his lorry, the police said in a statement on July 7.<\/p>\n
Items believed to be duty-unpaid cigarettes were also found on the man.<\/p>\n
The accident, which the police and Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) were alerted to at about 10.15am, occurred on Lorong 6 Toa Payoh towards Lorong 1 Toa Payoh.<\/p>\n
The female PMD rider was taken unconscious to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where she died, the authorities said.<\/p>\n
The suspected drug-related offences have been referred to the Central Narcotics Bureau, and the Customs-related offences will be referred to Singapore Customs, the police said.<\/p>\n
Investigations are ongoing, they added.<\/p>\n
An eyewitness who was at a nearby petrol station when the incident occurred told Chinese-language daily Shin Min Daily News<\/span><\/a> that the victim was thrown into the air after the crash and later seen lying motionless on the ground.<\/p>\n Bystanders were seen rushing over to check on the woman.<\/p>\n The lorry driver was handcuffed and taken away in a police vehicle at about 11am, Shin Min reported.<\/p>\n Road traffic fatalities in Singapore hit a 10-year high in 2025<\/span><\/a>, with 149 people killed in 2025 compared with 141 in 2016. There were 142 deaths in 2024.<\/p>\n Elderly pedestrian fatalities have also risen, more than doubling from 11 in 2024 to 27 in 2025.<\/p>\n Several reported traffic accidents in the last 16 months have been found to involve the use of drugs.<\/p>\n They include an incident in Punggol in May 2025<\/span><\/a> when a car driven by a 30-year-old man, who had a female passenger, collided with a bus.<\/p>\n Police officers discovered 42 vapes and more than 1,200 pods in the vehicle, with some containing etomidate. The drug was found in the driver\u2019s and woman\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n The 28-year-old woman died as a result of the accident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A 73-year-old woman died after an accident involving her personal mobility device (PMD) and a lorry in Toa Payoh on the morning of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66881,"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-66880","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\/66880","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=66880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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