A 7-year-old boy was allegedly hit by a mini school bus at Bukit Batok and got dragged on the road for almost 5 metres.
According to Lianhe Zaobao, the boy was purportedly crossing the road at the time, in front of the mini school bus, when he got run over.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that on 27 March at about 2 pm, they received a call for help after an accident that took place near Block 386 Bukit Batok West Avenue 5.
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) added that the accident involved a pedestrian and a minibus, and a 7-year-old boy was sent to the National University Hospital conscious.
A 57-year-old man who is the driver of the minibus is also assisting the police with their investigations into the accident, which is ongoing.
An eyewitness who was resting at a nearby HDB block told Zaobao that the boy went under the school bus after being run over.
He then shouted at the bus driver to get his attention, and the bus driver then stopped, but the boy had already been dragged on the road for a couple of metres.
The bus driver and his assistant then pulled the boy out from the back of the bus, and he was unconscious and covered in blood.
Zaobao reported that the boy’s grandmother was buying food at a coffee shop opposite the driveway at the time and was waiting at the side of the road to pick up her grandchildren after school.
The grandmother saw the bus driver pulling her grandson out from under the bus and was in a state of shock, bursting into tears.
The boy later regained consciousness and started crying, and an ambulance later arrived at the scene with paramedics attending to the injured boy, before conveying him to the hospital for further treatment.
The boy’s father also told Zaobao that his son’s body was covered in bruises and his face may have been fractured.
The boy is believed to have been wanting to cross the zebra crossing in front of the bus after alighting because he wanted to look for his grandmother across the street, but because he was small, he might’ve been in a blind spot.