SINGAPORE: A 24-year-old cyclist was killed in an accident in Changi on Thursday (Nov 12), marking at least three accidents involving cyclists in Singapore\u2019s eastern region in less than two days.<\/p>\n
In response to CNA\u2019s query, the police said they were alerted at about 8am on Thursday to an accident involving a tipper truck and a bicycle along Tanah Merah Coast Road.<\/p>\n
\u201cA 24-year-old male cyclist was pronounced dead at scene by an SCDF (Singapore Civil Defence Force) paramedic,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
The truck\u2019s 38-year-old driver is assisting with investigations.<\/p>\n
The death follows another fatal accident involving a 37-year-old female cyclist and a tipper truck on Wednesday at the junction of Amber Road and Amber Gardens.<\/p>\n
The cyclist was pronounced dead at the scene by an SCDF paramedic, the police told CNA.<\/p>\n
\u201cA 47-year-old male tipper truck driver is arrested for driving without reasonable consideration causing death,\u201d they said, adding that investigations were ongoing.<\/p>\n
Earlier that day, another cyclist was involved in an accident with a taxi at the junction of Kaki Bukit Avenue 2 and Eunos Link.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old man was taken conscious to Changi General Hospital, and the 64-year-old male taxi driver is assisting with police investigations.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: A 24-year-old cyclist was killed in an accident in Changi on Thursday (Nov 12), marking at least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[28222,64,63,352002,784,9485,85],"class_list":["post-962565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-accident","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-changi","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}