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A 38-year-old man suffered cuts to his knees and arms after tripping over a broken drain cover on Wednesday (July 29).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gift shop employee Lin (transliterated) told Shin Min Daily News that the incident occurred at around 8am in front of a parking lot along Arab and Queen Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was walking along the sidewalk when he saw the traffic light turn green and hurried into a jog to make it across the road.<\/p>\n
“When I stepped on the drain cover, I suddenly tripped and fell to the ground like Superman,” he told the Chinese newspaper, adding that he observed that the drain cover has two hooks, one of which was broken.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I have abrasions and bleeding on my left knee and both palms, and a few scrapes on my arm,” said Lin, who later bought ointment at a nearby convenience store.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lin said that he usually commutes with a bicycle but had left it elsewhere that day and decided to walk instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the incident, Lin straightened the cover and placed a large rock in front of it to warn other passers-by.<\/p>\n
He shared that there are many tourists, elderly and children who frequent that area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ma (transliterated), a 28-year-old chef, told Shin Min Daily News that he has never witnessed such an incident before but usually tries to avoid stepping on the drain covers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another woman named Ai Ya (transliterated) from Japan said she was surprised by the accident and would be more careful in future when crossing over drain covers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another man, who wished to remain anonymous, added that pedestrians should avoid looking at their phones while walking and pay more attention to road conditions to prevent similar occurrences.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The drain cover has been fixed as of July 30.<\/p>\n
The maintenance of the drain covers are reportedly undertaken by the Land Transport Authority (LTA)<\/a> since they form part of the footpaths. The details of the drain covers are designed in accordance with LTA’s latest Standard Details of Road Elements.<\/p>\n AsiaOne has contacted PUB and LTA for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n [[nid:741228]]<\/p>\n esther.lam@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A 38-year-old man suffered cuts to his knees and arms after tripping over a broken drain cover on Wednesday (July 29).\u00a0 Gift shop employee Lin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73298,"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-73297","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\/73297","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=73297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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