{"id":93845,"date":"2026-10-18T02:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93845"},"modified":"2026-10-18T02:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:39:02","slug":"woman-arrested-for-drink-driving-after-accident-in-amoy-street-2-people-taken-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93845","title":{"rendered":"Woman arrested for drink driving after accident in Amoy Street; 2 people taken to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 <!-- -->A 37-year-old woman was arrested for drink driving on Oct 17 after an accident involving three cars in Chinatown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The police said they were alerted to the accident, which also involved two people seated outside a bar in Amoy Street towards Cross Street, at about 12.45am that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The two individuals, a 25-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man, were taken conscious to Singapore General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A 39-year-old male car driver had minor injuries but declined to be taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In photos posted on the SGRV Front Man Facebook page on Oct 17, a grey car appears to have crashed into the side of a building believed to be Far East Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The hoarding of the building where the car crashed shows the upcoming opening of music restaurant bar Hutaoli in the third quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Another grey car and a blue car were captured stationary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/more-road-accidents-injuries-in-first-half-of-2026-even-as-fatalities-fall-traffic-police?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">mid-year road traffic statistics<\/span><\/a> released on Aug 28, the Traffic Police said more accidents and more people were getting injured in the first half of 2026 than in the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The number of traffic accidents resulting in injuries increased from 3,748 in the first half of 2025 to 3,869 in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Injuries rose from 4,894 in the first half of 2025 to 5,090 during the same period in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In August, Senior Minister K. Shanmugam said in Parliament that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/politics\/drink-driving-3283-disqualified-from-driving-between-2023-and-2025-40-handed-lifetime-ban?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">5,176 people were arrested for drink driving<\/span><\/a> between 2023 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Fines were imposed in 3,020 cases, with offenders having to pay about $5,200 on average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">A total of 647 offenders were imprisoned, with the average sentence being 45 days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/woman-arrested-for-drink-driving-after-accident-in-amoy-street-2-people-taken-to-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 37-year-old woman was arrested for drink driving on Oct 17 after an accident involving three cars in Chinatown. 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