POOL OF BLOOD
She sat at the hospital lounge with red, unfocused eyes, all energy
drained from her as she contemplated the future with a paralysed
husband.
She said they both work, but declined to give more details.
Housewife Ngoh Quee Yong, 46, who lives near the bridge, spoke to a
witness who saw the accident.
'He was lying motionless on the ground. By the time I passed by, I
saw only the pool of blood. I guess he was hurt badly,' she said in
Mandarin.
'The authorities shouldn't do this. In the early morning, it's too
dark to see. There should be flickering lights and warning
signboards,' said Madam Ngoh, who uses the bridge daily to get to
Pasir Ris Park for her morning exercise.
After hearing about the accident, she told newspaper vendor Ng Eng
Chai, 49, who immediately rushed to the bridge to warn other
cyclists.
Mr Ng said in Mandarin: 'There was an 80-year-old man who was going
very fast. If I hadn't stopped him, he would have been hurt.
'What about students? They like to race down. The height of the
barriers is just right to take off a child's head.'
He took the injured man's bicycle, which has been left next to a
nearby lamp post to demonstrate what could have happened. There was
still a patch of blood where the victim fell.
Another resident, Mr Goh Peng Hoon, 63, said he could easily have
become a victim.
'My friend asked me to talk to him at the coffeeshop, if not, I
would also be cycling past here early in the morning,' said the
retiree, who has been living in the area for 10 years.
About 200 people use the bridge every day, said residents
