SBS Bus & Garbage Truck Collided Head-On in Chai Chee; 6 People Sent to Hospital

While most of us were trying to deal with Monday Blues yesterday morning (26 Oct 2020), people who were driving at Chai Chee Road had to deal with a very different thing.

A major accident.

SBS Bus & Garbage Truck Collided Head-On in Chai Chee

According to a video uploaded by Facebook page, Singapore roads accident.com, the incident happened at the junction between Chai Chee Road and Chai Chee Street at around 7.15am.

The accident left both heavy vehicles blocking most of the access to the roads and, according to MS News, many bus services had to have their routes changed.

One such bus service was 229 which had to re-route and miss 3 bus stops as a consequence.

The accident allegedly happened when the rubbish disposal truck was trying to make a discretionary right turn at the junction.

An ambulance arrived sometime later.

6 People Sent To Hospital

According to the SCDF, six people were sent to Changi General Hospital.

They include the 33-year-old bus driver as well as 5 passengers, aged between 43 and 65 years old, according to STOMP.

The aftermath of the accident wasn’t pretty and debris from the collision were scattered on the road.

Two lanes were blocked and drivers who had to pass by the spot were seen carefully driving amidst the destruction.

A man was also seen directing vehicles around the site.

Police investigations are still ongoing.

Discretionary Right Turns

Discretionary right turns gained attention back in 2018 due to the taxi accident that happened at a junction in Clementi which resulted in the death of an NUS undergraduate.

In 2019, it was found out that the taxi involved was making a discretionary right turn when the accident happened.

A few days later, another passenger died when the car she was in was making a discretionary right turn when it was hit by an SMRT bus.

After a series of gruesome accidents featuring the discretionary right turn, people turned to change.org to create a petition to do away with, or at least review, the discretionary right turn in Singapore.

One of our writers went ahead to check the statistics of traffic accidents in Singapore and it seems that discretionary right turns might contribute a lot more to accidents than you’ve thought.

Here, you can read his thoughtful analysis here.

Thankfully, there wasn’t any report of casualties in the Chai Chee accident.