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“That could’ve been the last day I saw my daughter.”<\/p>\n
These were the exact words of 42-year-old Tower Transit bus captain Lee Zhen Yang, after dashcam footage of a trailer driver running a red light in Jurong<\/a> and narrowing missing his bus made its rounds on social media.<\/p>\n Lee, whose daughter turns three at the end of the year, recounted the incident to AsiaOne on Monday (Sept 7).<\/p>\n He said when the the light turned green in his favour, he had disengaged the hand brake and began moving slowly when the “trailer came into my view”.<\/p>\n He said that the training he had received taught him to always take multiple glances at all blind spots and the direction of travel.<\/p>\n “So, I was constantly checking while moving forward slowly,” Lee said.<\/p>\n Reflecting on the incident, he said that the split second he took to check ended up giving him enough time to apply brakes.<\/p>\n “It probably saved my life,” Lee said, shaken by the thought that he would have been absent for his daughter’s third birthday in December.\u00a0<\/p>\n In response to AsiaOne’s queries, Tower Transit emphasised that the safety of its commuters and bus captains is its foremost priority.<\/p>\n “Defensive driving habits like Lee’s, even when he has the right of way, are part of what we train and reinforce across our fleet,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n A trailer driver was caught on dashcam footage running a red light on Corporation Road at about 12pm on Sept 4.<\/p>\n The action nearly resulted in an accident with an oncoming Tower Transit double-decker bus and a black saloon car.<\/p>\n No injuries were reported and a collision was avoided, as the trailer driver swerved in time and both the bus and car drivers were able to stop before impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n The police told AsiaOne on Monday afternoon that they are aware of the incident and are looking into the matter.<\/p>\n The offence of failing to conform to traffic light signals carries a fine of $500 for heavy vehicle drivers and 12 demerit points.<\/p>\n [[nid:744504]]<\/p>\n editor@asiaone.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “That could’ve been the last day I saw my daughter.” These were the exact words of 42-year-old Tower Transit bus captain Lee Zhen Yang, after…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83148,"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-83147","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\/83147","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=83147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What happened<\/h2>\n
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