Cyclist taken to hospital after accident with car in Aljunied
A 50-year-old cyclist was taken to hospital after an accident involving a car near the junction of Aljunied Road and Sims Avenue on June 1.
The man was conscious when taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), who, like the police, were alerted to the accident at around 5.05pm.
A video of the incident posted on Facebook shows the cyclist landing on the front of a car and bouncing off it onto the road. It is unclear from the footage whether the cyclist had been struck by the vehicle.
In photographs circulating on Facebook, the man is seen with one side of his face covered in blood following the accident. Uniformed officers tend to him as he is seated on a pavement. Two ambulances are parked nearby.
Other images show a dark-coloured car with a partially shattered windscreen, possibly from the impact of the crash.
Police investigations are ongoing.
According to statistics from Data.gov.sg, an open government data portal, 591 cyclists and pillions were injured in road traffic accidents in 2024. They accounted for approximately 6.3 per cent of the total 9,302 people injured in such accidents that year.
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