{"id":98111,"date":"2026-11-07T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98111"},"modified":"2026-11-07T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T08:43:05","slug":"man-arrested-after-alleged-assault-and-police-car-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98111","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after alleged assault and police car chase"},"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 <!-- -->33-year-old man<!-- --> has been arrested for his suspected involvement in a case of voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means and for failing to provide a breath specimen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a statement on <!-- -->Nov 7<!-- -->, the police said they were alerted to a case of assault <!-- -->in River Valley Road<!-- --> at about <!-- -->8.35pm on Nov 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Preliminary investigations revealed that the<!-- --> 33-year-old man had assaulted a 34-year-old man<!-- --> with a sharp object.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The<!-- --> 34-year-old man<!-- --> suffered injuries and was taken to hospital while conscious, while the alleged assailant fled the scene in his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">On <!-- -->Nov 7, at about 12.05am<!-- -->, police officers on patrol along Tessensohn Road spotted his vehicle and signalled it to stop. The man failed to comply and sped off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Officers pursued the vehicle, which later collided with another car and overturned at the <!-- -->junction of Race Course Road and Birch Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The<!-- --> 36-year-old male driver<!-- --> of the other car and his two female passengers, <!-- -->aged 26 and 42<!-- -->, were taken to hospital while conscious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In response to queries from The Straits Times, the Singapore Civil Defence Force said <!-- -->three people were taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and one to Changi General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In a video of the accident shared on Facebook, an SUV is seen ignoring a red light signal and driving through a junction while other vehicles have already stopped.  Police sirens can be heard blaring in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Several honks can be heard before a white car T-bones the SUV, causing the SUV to turn turtle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">At least two police cars then pull up behind the flipped SUV, and officers are seen racing towards the SUV on foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The<!-- --> 33-year-old ma<!-- -->n was arrested at the scene, and was taken to hospital while conscious, the police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He is set to be charged in court on <!-- -->Nov 7<!-- --> with the offence of voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means and failure to provide specimen of breath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means carries a jail term <!-- -->which may extend to seven years, a fine, caning, or any combination of these punishments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Failing to provide a breath specimen is punishable with a<!-- --> fine between $1,000 and $5,000, or a jail term of up to six months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The man will also be investigated for dangerous driving causing hurt.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vehicle overturns during police chase of man who fled scene after allegedly assaulting another\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kLIYIFkxRxE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/man-who-fled-from-scene-after-alleged-assault-arrested-after-police-car-chase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 33-year-old man has been arrested for his suspected involvement in a case of voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means and for failing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98113,"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-98111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98111","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=98111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}