Master Sergeant Lim Chin Hou, 34, is still in intensive care and
has not awoken since the incident. He has undergone brain surgery,
and both his legs are in casts, members of his family here told The
Straits Times on Sunday.
The Singapore Armed Forces serviceman had begun a two-year
support-training stint in Hengchun in south Taiwan in June. He was
expecting his wife and two young children to join him there after
the Chinese New Year.
A Taiwanese police spokesman told The Straits Times that he left
his camp at about 7.30pm and was crossing a street towards a bus
stop when he was run over by a van. As he lay on the road, a big
tourist coach ran over his legs, fracturing his thighs.
Both drivers fled the scene, but were later arrested, the
spokesman added.
The driver of the van, a 46-year-old woman known only as Ms Yeh,
told Taiwan police that Master Sgt Lim was jaywalking at the time,
and with the area being dimly lit, she hardly saw him.