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A 68-year-old man was injured after he was allegedly flung from his seat when a Tower Transit bus applied its brakes suddenly on Tuesday (Sept 1).<\/p>\n
According to Stomp, the passenger was travelling on bus service 858 at around 12.20pm when the incident happened on Woodlands Avenue 7 towards Woodlands Interchange.<\/p>\n
His son, who goes by the name Jeremy, said that his father was seated near the front of the bus and facing forward when the bus suddenly braked.<\/p>\n
His father reportedly fell forward onto the rear-facing seats and hit his head. He briefly lost consciousness and was later attended to by the bus captain and two passengers.<\/p>\n
He suffered a bleeding head wound and significant swelling and bruising around his right eye.<\/p>\n
The man was unable to walk after the incident and had to be taken off the bus on a stretcher.<\/p>\n
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) told AsiaOne that it received a call for assistance along Woodlands Avenue 7 at about 12.25pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The passenger was taken to Woodlands Hospital.<\/p>\n
Jeremy said that the family learned about the incident only when his father contacted them from the hospital at around 1.25pm.<\/p>\n
The son he subsequently contacted Tower Transit at around 2pm <\/strong>and again at about 3pm but was unhappy with the updates received.<\/p>\n Jeremy claimed that no one from the bus operator contacted the family to check on his father’s condition that day.<\/p>\n He eventually reached out to Tower Transit management through personal contacts, after which a customer service manager called him at around 10.30pm, according to Stomp.<\/p>\n His father has since been discharged from Woodlands Hospital with four days of hospitalisation leave.<\/p>\n Tower Transit told AsiaOne that it is aware of the incident.<\/p>\n The bus operator identified the passenger as Mr Goh and said its investigation found that a motorcycle in front of the bus had come to a sudden stop, causing the bus captain to apply emergency brakes.<\/p>\n Mr Goh, who was travelling on the bus, fell forward onto the rear-facing seats and was injured, Tower Transit said.<\/p>\n The bus captain and other passengers attended to him while the operator’s Bus Operations Control Centre activated an ambulance.<\/p>\n Tower Transit said its customer experience team called Mr Goh at about 2pm, less than two hours after the incident, but was unable to get through.<\/p>\n His son later called the operator and was expecting an update, which was only provided at about 10.30pm that day, Tower Transit added.<\/p>\n The operator apologised to Mr Goh’s family for the delay during what it described as a distressing time.<\/p>\n It added that it would continue to offer its full support, including assistance with necessary claims.<\/p>\n “We wish Mr Goh a full and speedy recovery.”<\/p>\n [[nid:744169]]<\/p>\n asyiqin.nadzri@asiaone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A 68-year-old man was injured after he was allegedly flung from his seat when a Tower Transit bus applied its brakes suddenly on Tuesday (Sept…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81938,"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-81937","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\/81937","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=81937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tower Transit explains incident<\/h2>\n
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