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SINGAPORE \u2013 A 75-year-old man who was riding a power-assisted bicycle has died after an accident with a taxi in Hougang on Nov 13.<\/p>\n
The police and the Singapore Civil Defence Force said they were alerted to the accident at the junction of Hougang Avenue 9 and Yio Chu Kang Road at about 11.25am.<\/p>\n
The elderly cyclist was taken unconscious to Sengkang General Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n
The police said the taxi driver, a 54-year-old man, is assisting with ongoing investigations.<\/p>\n
It is not known which taxi operator the vehicle belongs to.<\/p>\n
This is the third reported fatal accident in three days involving a cyclist.<\/p>\n
On Nov 12, a 24-year-old cyclist died<\/span><\/a> after an accident with a tipper truck in Changi.<\/p>\n The day before, a 37-year-old cyclist died<\/span><\/a> after an accident involving a tipper truck in Katong. The truck driver was arrested.<\/p>\n Traffic accidents involving cyclists have been on the rise, with a surge of almost 25% reported in 2025.<\/p>\n There were 772 accidents involving cyclists in 2025, compared with 620 such accidents in 2024 and 581 in 2023.<\/p>\n Of the accidents in 2025, 17 were fatal. In comparison, there were 13 fatal accidents in 2024 and 15 in 2023.<\/p>\n Cyclists include those using power-assisted bicycles, recumbent bicycles, trishaws and tricycles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A 75-year-old man who was riding a power-assisted bicycle has died after an accident with a taxi in Hougang on Nov 13. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99250,"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-99249","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\/99249","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=99249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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