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SINGAPORE \u2013 A 24-year-old cyclist died on the morning of Nov 12 after an accident with a tipper truck in Changi, less than 24 hours after a similar fatal crash in Katong.<\/p>\n
In response to media queries, the police said they were alerted to the accident in Tanah Merah Coast Road towards Aviation Park Road at about 8am.<\/p>\n
The cyclist was pronounced dead on the scene by a Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) paramedic, the police said.<\/p>\n
A 38-year-old male tipper truck driver is assisting with ongoing police investigations.<\/p>\n
The incident marks the second fatal accident between a cyclist and a tipper truck in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n
At about 3.15pm on Nov 11, a <\/span><\/a>37-year-old female cyclist<\/span><\/a> died<\/span><\/a> after an accident between her bicycle and a tipper truck at the junction of Amber Road and Amber Gardens in Katong.<\/p>\n She was also pronounced dead at the scene by an SCDF paramedic, and the 47-year-old male tipper truck driver was arrested for driving without reasonable consideration causing death.<\/p>\n The back-to-back fatalities come amid a broader rise in traffic accidents involving cyclists on Singapore\u2019s roads. According to police statistics, traffic accidents involving cyclists surged nearly 25% to 772 cases in 2025<\/span><\/a> \u2013 up from 620 in 2024. There were 581 such cases in 2023.<\/p>\n Cyclist 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<\/span><\/a>, compared with 141 in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A 24-year-old cyclist died on the morning of Nov 12 after an accident with a tipper truck in Changi, less than 24 hours…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99039,"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-99038","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\/99038","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=99038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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