Nine male workers were injured when a lorry they were in crashed
into a tree at the junction of Jurong Port Road and Jalan Buroh
early this morning.
The accident happened at about 6.35am.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force, SCDF, said that the lorry had
skidded.
All nine injured were sent to the National University
Hospital.
SCDF said two of them had cuts on their foreheads while the rest
suffered bruises and abrasions.
John Rajoo Sandaran, the driver of the lorry, recounts what
happened.
"Raining already, I wanted to turn left, so I changed into
fourth gear, once I turned, my vehicle started skidding.
When I tried to avoid the skid, the lorry get more skid. After
the accident, I came down, my slipper also slippery. I looked at
roadside - very slippery. And then I found on the left hand
side all the dirt water, all the oil floating on the water.
The workers were from Siling Engineering Transportation
Company.
The boss of the company, Simon Subra, claims the lorry was not
overcrowded at the time of the incident.
He said the workers are from Myanmar and that this is the first
time the company has had such an incident.
Over the last three years, there's been about 70 lorry accidents
involving casualties every year.
-- 938Live