The Singapore Police Force arrested a 50-year-old man on 18 April for allegedly driving under the influence of drugs and suspected drug offences.
The man had purportedly knocked down a 33-year-old woman and a road sign along Jalan Sultan Road, outside the Textile Centre.
He was seen in a video circulating online, lying down motionless on the pavement, and a collapsed road sign could also be seen on the pavement as well.
The man’s van was also seen in the video stopped perpendicularly on the left lane of the road, blocking it.
The Singapore Police Force said that they were alerted to the incident involving a van and a woman on 18 April at about 7.30am along Jalan Sultan heading towards Beach Road, and the woman was sent to the hospital conscious.
At the time of writing, police investigations are ongoing.
According to a worker at the Textile Centre, he told Shin Min Daily News that the woman who was knocked down, was a resident of the Textile Centre apartments and was standing in front of a convenience store at the time when the van suddenly knocked her down.
The woman’s head starting bleeding after it had hit the ground, but was otherwise still conscious, and she then called her boyfriend before being sent to the hospital.
A 77-year-old store assistant working in the vicinity said that when he arrived at his shop to open for business at about 10am, he already saw the police at the scene.
The male driver of the van was also seen lying on the pavement outside his store, and the witness described the van’s front wheels as being out of shape because of the accident, and that the driver looked like he was out of it.
The police had asked him to get up but he refused and continued lying on the ground.
An ambulance was also at the scene and the police eventually managed to get the man to stand up, but he refused to get into the ambulance and ended up being handcuffed by the officers.
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