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 the
SCDF 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.