By Jeanette
Tan | Yahoo!
Newsroom – 2 hours 6 minutes ago
A man was killed when his stationary car was hit by a double-decker
bus at the slip road near Bishan MRT
Station on Monday
afternoon.
The car
driver, identified by
the Singapore
Civil Defence Force(SCDF) as a Chinese
man in his 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics
after the SCDF and the
police received a call for help at 3:35pm.
SCDF told Yahoo!
Singapore that he was found trapped in his
seat and had to be removed from the scene
by SCDF officers, while his passenger, a Chinese woman in her 50s,
was sent to Tan Tock Seng
Hospital with
swollen legs and complaints of pain in her right
arm.
No other injuries were reported, according to checks
done with theSCDF and the
police.
The accident occured at the junction between Bishan
Road and Bishan Street 14.
23-year-old Low Guan You was travelling on another
bus and passed the scene of the accident at about
6:30pm.
He told Yahoo!
Singapore that the entire double-decker
bus had cleared the railing on the side of the road and was
straddling the sidewalk.
“The entire bus was on the sidewalk, and it nearly
hit the MRT line,” said the undergraduate, adding that a tow truck
was on the scene by that time, and staff were trying to work out
how to remove the double-decker bus from the
sidewalk.
Low also said that the scene caused slight traffic
congestion at the junction where the accident happened.
Gabriel Benjamin said the windscreen of the bus was at the
barricade overlooking the MRT train tracks.
He added that he "saw a lot of white paint on the
road, the white car boot had buckets of white paint in it." He saw
the police cordon off the area and there were at least 25 people at
the scene.
SBS Transit's senior vice president for corporate
communications Tammy Tan said the operator is in touch with the
car's passenger "to find out how she is and to see how we can
render assistance".
"We are also trying to get in touch with the family
of the driver and are assisting the police with their
investigations," she said. "We are very sorry that this has
happened. Our immediate focus is on helping the
injured."
TodayOnline cited eyewitness accounts of the SBS
double-decker bus losing control while trying to merge into a slip
road. According to the report, the bus then hit the side of the
deceased driver’s stationary car that was headed toward Bishan
Street 22.
