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SINGAPORE \u2013 A 79-year-old pedestrian died in hospital after he was involved in an accident with a car in the Orchard Road area on Aug 11.<\/p>\n
The police and Singapore Civil Defence Force said they were alerted to the accident, which happened at the junction of Grange Road and Paterson Road at about 6.45am.<\/p>\n
The man was unconscious when taken to the Singapore General Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n
The police said a 46-year-old male car driver was later arrested for driving without due care and attention causing death.<\/p>\n
Photos of the accident\u2019s aftermath shared on Facebook on Aug 16 show a man lying on his side on a road. A woman, who appears to be a paramedic, is seen attending to him and there is a stretcher nearby.<\/p>\n
Another photo shows a traffic police signboard appealing for witnesses for the fatal accident.<\/p>\n
Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n
Traffic accidents resulting in deaths increased by 5.8 per cent, from 139 cases in 2024 to 147 cases in 2025.<\/p>\n
There were a total of 149 road traffic deaths in 2025 \u2013 marking a 10-year high<\/span><\/a>, according to annual Traffic Police (TP) figures released in February.<\/p>\n The elderly continued to be over-represented in pedestrian deaths, TP had said. The number of fatal accidents involving this demographic increased from 11 cases in 2024, to 27 cases in 2025.<\/p>\n Though they make up 12.9 per cent of Singapore\u2019s overall population in 2025, they accounted for 75 per cent of the 36 pedestrian deaths in that year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A 79-year-old pedestrian died in hospital after he was involved in an accident with a car in the Orchard Road area on Aug…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76947,"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-76946","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\/76946","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=76946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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