A 68-year-old male driver of a social service minibus was arrested by the Singapore Police Force on Tuesday (9 May) for careless driving causing grievous hurt after an accident along Chai Chee.
The police said that they were alerted to an accident that occurred along Block 36 Chai Chee Avenue, involving the minibus and a pedestrian.
The pedestrian is a 68-year-old elderly woman who was hit by the minivan and was conveyed to the hospital conscious, and the 68-year-old driver was subsequently arrested by the police.
Lianhe Zaobao reported that the minibus was a social service vehicle for the Asian Women’s Welfare Association (AWWA).
According to Zaobao, the driver of the minibus had allegedly fallen asleep at the wheel while he was driving and ended up losing control of the minibus, before crashing the vehicle into a nearby carpark gantry.
The elderly woman was crossing the road at the time when the minibus crashed into her, and she then fell and was purportedly bleeding from her head.
At the time of the accident, the AWWA minibus was ferrying about 5 children between the ages of 4 and 5 years old.
At the time of writing, police investigations into the accident are currently underway.
Other similar accidents
There was another case of an elderly pedestrian being run over by a car just 2 weeks ago outside International Plaza.
A black car was making a right turn from a traffic junction before colliding into an elderly woman who was purportedly jaywalking at the time, and remained on the ground motionless after the impact.
Other pedestrians who were passing by at the time rushed onto the road to render aid to the stricken woman, who remained unmoving, as the driver of the car also alighted to check on the injured woman.
According to The Singapore Police Force, the 67-year-old elderly woman was unconscious when conveyed to Singapore General Hospital.
She later succumbed to her injuries and passed away, the police are investigating the incident.