{"id":86219,"date":"2026-09-19T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86219"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:56:00","slug":"cyclist-16-arrested-in-singapore-after-accident-with-74-year-old-pedestrian-who-later-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86219","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist, 16, arrested in Singapore after accident with 74-year-old pedestrian who later died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-body\" role=\"article\">\n                <!-- Content data --><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE: A 16-year-old cyclist has been arrested for a rash act causing death following an accident involving a 74-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>The police said they received a call for assistance at Block 741 Yishun Avenue 5 at 11.45am on Tuesday (Sept 15).<\/p>\n<p>The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) took the man, who was a pedestrian, to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital where he later died, said the police.<\/p>\n<p>The male teenager was arrested for the offence of rash act causing death and investigations are ongoing, added the police.<\/p>\n<p>A man who said he is the 74-year-old\u2019s son, made an appeal for eyewitnesses on Facebook on Sept 16.<\/p>\n<p>Tan Bo Xue identified the elderly man as his father, Tan Liang Kwong. He later said that his father had died on Sept 17.<\/p>\n<p>He said the accident took place near a Jollibee outlet in a Caltex petrol station located near the junction of Yishun Avenue 5 and Yishun Street 11.<\/p>\n<p>Block 741 Yishun Avenue 5, where the police were called, is opposite the petrol station.<\/p>\n<p>Tan also thanked a passerby, whom he says called the ambulance for his father, and asked the passerby to contact him. &#8211; The Straits Times\/ANN<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/aseanplus\/aseanplus-news\/2026\/09\/19\/cyclist-16-arrested-in-singapore-after-accident-with-74-year-old-pedestrian-who-later-died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: A 16-year-old cyclist has been arrested for a rash act causing death following an accident involving a 74-year-old man. The police said they received&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86220,"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-86219","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\/86219","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=86219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}