{"id":70257,"date":"2026-07-20T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=70257"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:23:00","slug":"pma-user-taken-to-hospital-unconscious-after-accident-with-tower-transit-bus-in-jurong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=70257","title":{"rendered":"PMA user taken to hospital unconscious after accident with Tower Transit bus in Jurong"},"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 Personal Mobility Aid (PMA) user was unconscious when he was<!-- --> <!-- -->taken to hospital after an accident involving a <!-- -->Tower Transit<!-- --> bus in Jurong on <!-- -->July 19<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In response to The Straits Times\u2019 queries, the police said on July 20 that they were alerted to an accident involving a bus and a <!-- -->52-year-old <!-- -->PMA rider in <!-- -->Corporation Drive at about 9.45am<!-- --> on July 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The Singapore Civil Defence Force said that the <!-- -->PMA ride<!-- -->r was taken to the National University Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a statement made through its Facebook account, public bus operator Tower Transit said that the PMA user \u201crode off the pavement and crashed into the side of a service 49 bus that was pulling into a bus stop along Corporation Drive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The user fell of the PMA and the bus captain and a passer-by assisted him before he was taken to the hospital. No passengers on board were harmed, Tower Transit added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to Chinese-language daily Shin Min Daily News an eyewitness had seen part of the PMA pinned under the bus. In a photo, the PMA\u2019s handlebar can be seen completely snapped off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a short video of the aftermath of the accident that circulated online, a man with a bandaged head is seen being lifted by three paramedics onto an ambulance stretcher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Tower Transit said that it is in touch with the PMA user\u2019s next-of-kin to offer assistance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/pma-user-taken-to-hospital-unconscious-after-accident-with-tower-transit-bus-in-jurong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A Personal Mobility Aid (PMA) user was unconscious when he was taken to hospital after an accident involving a Tower Transit bus in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70258,"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-70257","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\/70257","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=70257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}