An incident occurred on Tanjong Rhu Road towards Meyer Road involving a motorcycle and a taxi, resulting in a motorcyclist being conveyed to the hospital on Tuesday.
A video shared on the Facebook group SG Road Vigilante shows the motorcyclist making a right turn when a yellow ComfortDelGro taxi collides with him.
The collision throws the motorcyclist into the air, sending him spinning 360 degrees off his motorcycle and landing on his head on the ground.
Both the Singapore Civil Defence Force and the police were notified of the accident at 5.35 pm on Tuesday.
Upon arrival at Raffles Hospital, the conscious 26-year-old man received medical attention.
The police are currently conducting an investigation into the incident.
Responding to the incident, Ms Tammy Tan, the group chief corporate affairs officer at ComfortDelGro, stated that the company is making efforts to reach out to the motorcyclist to provide assistance. She further mentioned that ComfortDelGro is cooperating with the police during their investigation.
The taxi had no passengers on board at the time of the accident, and the driver did not sustain any injuries, according to Ms Tan.
Similar accidents
Earlier this month on 11 May, a video emerged online showing a motorcycle being sideswiped by a black Hyundai Elantra, resulting in the motorcyclist and the pillion rider falling off the bike and tumbling onto the road along the Tampines Expressway (TPE) on Thursday morning (11 May).
According to the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), both of them were conveyed to the hospital following the accident.
The black car was seen in the video driving at a high speed along the Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE), and after entering into TPE, the driver then tried to cut across all 4 lanes of the road dangerously.
The driver managed to cut across the two centre lanes but sideswiped the motorcycle on the first lane despite trying to turn away from the motorcyclist.
The resulting collision saw the motorcyclist and the pillion rider both falling off their motorcycle and crashing onto the road, tumbling on the ground as the other vehicles drove by dangerously close to them.
Making things worse was the fact that the pillion rider’s helmet also got dislodged from their head, leaving them without protection on the road.
The video then ends with the car appearing to drive away, although it isn’t clear if the driver had later stopped to render aid to the motorcycle that he hit.
A spokesperson for the Singaproe Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that they received an alert about the accident on Thursday (11 May) at about 8.55 am in the morning.
Two people were sent to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital after the accident for treatment.