{"id":76706,"date":"2026-08-15T20:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=76706"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:25:04","slug":"driver-arrested-for-drug-offences-after-bukit-panjang-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=76706","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested for drug offences after Bukit Panjang crash"},"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 van driver was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of drugs after a multi-vehicle accident in <!-- -->Bukit Panjang<!-- --> on <!-- -->the night of Aug 14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a response to queries from The Straits Times, the police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force said they were alerted to the accident in <!-- -->Bukit Panjang Road towards Bukit Panjang Ring Road<!-- --> <!-- -->at about 9pm<!-- --> that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police said they seized<!-- --> two vaporisers and three pods<!-- --> in a van involved in the accident, and a <!-- -->27-year-old male van drive<!-- -->r was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vaporiser-related offence has been referred to the Health Sciences Authority. Investigations are ongoing,\u201d the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Other than the van,<!-- --> a motorcycle and two cars<!-- --> were also involved in the accident, the police said, adding that<!-- --> two people<!-- --> <!-- -->suffered minor injuries<!-- --> but refused to be taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a video of the accident\u2019s aftermath posted by Instagram account sgfollowsall,<!-- --> <!-- -->a van, which appears to have been going against the flow of traffic, is seen nose to nose with a red sedan. A motorcycle is sandwiched between the two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A black sedan can be seen several metres behind the red car.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/driver-arrested-for-drug-offences-after-multi-vehicle-accident-in-bukit-panjang-vapes-found-in-van\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A van driver was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of drugs after a multi-vehicle accident in Bukit Panjang on the night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76707,"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-76706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76706","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=76706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}