2 taken to hospital after van and bus collide on TPE

Source: The Straits Times
Author: Elaine Lee

SINGAPORE - Two people were taken to the hospital after an accident involving a bus and a lorry on the Tampines Expressway (TPE) on June 8 morning.

The accident happened on the TPE towards the Pan-Island Expressway, after the Tampines Road exit. The police was alerted at about 6.35am that day, with the Singapore Civil Defence Force alerted shortly after.

A video posted on Singapore Road Accidents.com Facebook group shows a Tower Transit bus on the road shoulder, with a lorry in the leftmost lane, positioned perpendicular to the traffic flow, with a mangled front cabin.

A 58-year-old male bus driver and a 42-year-old male lorry driver were taken conscious to Sengkang General Hospital and Changi General Hospital, respectively.