{"id":67247,"date":"2026-07-09T06:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=67247"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:35:04","slug":"police-searching-for-44-year-old-driver-involved-in-hit-and-run-in-punggol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=67247","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for 44-year-old driver involved in hit-and-run in Punggol"},"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 <!-- -->The police are searching for a <!-- -->44-year-old<!-- --> driver who was involved in a hit-and-run in Punggol in the wee hours of July 8.<\/p>\n<p>In response to media queries, the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force said they were alerted to the incident involving a <!-- -->car and a van<!-- --> at Block 122A Edgedale Plains at about <!-- -->2.45am<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old car driver fled the scene before the police arrived, leaving behind two passengers, <!-- -->aged 36 and 39<!-- -->, who were taken conscious to hospital, said the police.<\/p>\n<p>The <!-- -->30-year-old van driver<!-- --> sustained minor injuries but refused to be taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to locate the car driver are under way, said the police.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the accident posted on the Sgfollowsall Instagram page shows a dark-coloured car with a damaged front bumper and one of its headlamps missing in an HDB carpark. A nearby tree trunk is seen split down the middle.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"portrait inline-media-wrapper\" style=\"--aspect-article-portrait:1080 \/ 1960\" data-testid=\"inline-media-test-id\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col items-start relative w-fit\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/straitstimes\/e4b451656aaf69a2b59cb7037c23527c3985a685f18d1dcbc2971a7c10c9afd7?w=480\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 720px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/straitstimes\/e4b451656aaf69a2b59cb7037c23527c3985a685f18d1dcbc2971a7c10c9afd7?w=720\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 721px and max-width: 3999px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/straitstimes\/e4b451656aaf69a2b59cb7037c23527c3985a685f18d1dcbc2971a7c10c9afd7?w=900\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 4000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/straitstimes\/e4b451656aaf69a2b59cb7037c23527c3985a685f18d1dcbc2971a7c10c9afd7\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/straitstimes\/e4b451656aaf69a2b59cb7037c23527c3985a685f18d1dcbc2971a7c10c9afd7\" alt=\"\" class=\"aspect-portrait flex items-start shrink-0 portrait article-portrait object-contain mobile:w-auto tablet:w-auto\" data-testid=\"image-test-id\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"mobile:mx-16 tablet:mx-00 pt-08 pb-16\">\n<p class=\"inline text-secondary font-secondary-captions-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"inline-media-caption-test-id\">A tree trunk seen split down the middle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline text-tertiary font-secondary-captions-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"inline-media-credit-test-id\"> <!-- -->PHOTO: SGFOLLOWSALL\/INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Across a road, a van with a dented rear bumper and tailgate, and sporting the logo of delivery service Lalamove, appears to have mounted the kerb.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigations are <!-- -->ongoing<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/police-searching-for-driver-involved-in-hit-and-run-in-punggol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 The police are searching for a 44-year-old driver who was involved in a hit-and-run in Punggol in the wee hours of July 8&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67248,"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-67247","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\/67247","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=67247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}