SINGAPORE \u2013 Two accidents involving cyclists, one of them fatal, took place in the eastern part of Singapore on Nov 11.<\/p>\n
In one of them, a 37-year-old female cyclist died after an accident in Katong, and a truck driver has been arrested.<\/p>\n
In a media reply, police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they were alerted to an accident involving a tipper truck and a bicycle at the junction of Amber Road and Amber Gardens at around 3.15pm that day.<\/p>\n
The cyclist was pronounced dead at the scene by an SCDF paramedic, while a 47-year-old male tipper truck driver was arrested for driving without reasonable consideration causing death, the authorities added.<\/p>\n
Police investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n
Footage of the aftermath of the accident posted on TikTok shows a blue tent on the road next to a tipper truck, with a portion of the road and the adjacent pedestrian walkway cordoned off.<\/p>\n
Multiple police personnel and vehicles are seen at the scene.<\/p>\n
The other accident, which took place at about 8.30am, involved a 52-year-old male cyclist and a taxi at the junction of Kaki Bukit Avenue 2 and Eunos Link, the authorities said.<\/p>\n
The cyclist was taken conscious to Changi General Hospital.<\/p>\n
A 64-year-old male taxi driver is assisting with police investigations.<\/p>\n An image of the aftermath of the accident in Kaki Bukit shows a bicycle lying on its side on the road, next to a blue vehicle.<\/p>\n PHOTO: SGROAD BLOCKS TRAFFIC NEWS\/TELEGRAM\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n An image of the aftermath of the accident circulating on Telegram shows a bicycle lying on its side on the road, next to a blue vehicle.<\/p>\n The Telegram user who posted the photograph said the taxi involved belonged to taxi operator ComfortDelGro.<\/p>\n The Straits Times has contacted ComfortDelGro for more information.<\/p>\n The incidents come amid a broader rise in traffic accidents involving cyclists,<\/span><\/a> which surged nearly 25% to 772 cases in 2025 \u2013 up from 620 in 2024 and 581 in 2023, according to police statistics.<\/p>\n Fatalities similarly rose to 17 in 2025, compared with 13 in 2024.<\/p>\n The trend mirrors a wider deterioration in Singapore\u2019s road safety, with traffic deaths hitting a 10-year high of 149 in 2025, compared with 141 in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Two accidents involving cyclists, one of them fatal, took place in the eastern part of Singapore on Nov 11. In one of them,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98919,"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-98918","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\/98918","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=98918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/picture><\/div>
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