Family lodges police report after woman falls from bus

• SBST163

  13 Mar 12, 09:49

  Family lodges police report after woman falls from bus Published on Mar 13, 2012 Share 0 inShare Purchase this article for republication Buy SPH photos Madam Yeo, 84, recovering in hospital after her right hip joint operation on Saturday. On her way home on March 4, as she was getting off an SBS No. 32 bus, she fell to the ground when the bus doors allegedly shut abruptly and the vehicle moved off. -- ST PHOTO: NURIA LING By Leslie Kay Lim The family of an 84-year-old woman has filed a police report after she fell from an SBS Transit bus which allegedly moved off while she was getting down at a bus stop. Madam Yeo Hock Imm, who underwent a procedure to replace her right hip joint at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, is now looking at three to four weeks of recovery in Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital. 'We want to find out what happened - why the driver did that, and drove away,' claimed her son Joseph Tan, 46, who filed the police report on the day of the accident on March 4. BACKGROUND STORY DID DRIVER SCOOT? 'We want to find out what happened - why the driver did that, and drove away.' Mr Joseph Tan, Madam Yeo's son Mr Tan, a pastor, said the family's concern is with making sure something similar does not happen again, and with accountability more than anything else. http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_776974.html
• dragg

  13 Mar 12, 10:05

  no witnesses at all?
• Gus.chong

  13 Mar 12, 10:07

  What the heck is the driver doing? He could do better if he were to close the doors at the bus interchange when all the passengers were getting down the bus!!!

• FireIce

  13 Mar 12, 10:10

  sometimes i oso worry when my haraboji take bus ........

• sbst275

  13 Mar 12, 10:13

  I dun wish to say too much.. but there's a bad habit these days once there's fewer boarding/ alighting..

  Handbrake is not applied...

  I dunno, the most is door hit people... bus still does not move (psycho-motor of letting go of brake to move off while door is closing).

  You only release the handbrake after door is closed... I missed that..

• dragg

  13 Mar 12, 10:21

  lets not jump to conclusion and blame the driver.
• Hwaimeng

  13 Mar 12, 11:21

  i personnal witness a old lady almost fall off while standing near me beside the door to get off from the interchange of bishan many many years ago. the bus was making a very sharp turn at high speed.

  lucky i manage to catch hold of the old lady as she fall towards me.....

  the bus captain only take a alook behind and when he saw the old lady is ok, he never say any sorry.

  today i just catch 1 of my chinaman workers use the toilet and never FLUSH~!!!!!!

  i gave him a upside down screwing. many times those china man always dont wan to flush the toilet.

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  13 Mar 12, 11:34

  Originally posted by Hwaimeng:

  i personnal witness a old lady almost fall off while standing near me beside the door to get off from the interchange of bishan many many years ago. the bus was making a very sharp turn at high speed.

  lucky i manage to catch hold of the old lady as she fall towards me.....

  the bus captain only take a alook behind and when he saw the old lady is ok, he never say any sorry.

  today i just catch 1 of my chinaman workers use the toilet and never FLUSH~!!!!!!

  i gave him a upside down screwing. many times those china man always dont wan to flush the toilet.

  
  Also got another old woman fell down in bus b4 and it was also in the news so this is nthing new...

   

   

  Btw, wat has chinaman no flush toilet gotta do with this??

• dragg

  13 Mar 12, 11:42

  Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:

  
  Also got another old woman fell down in bus b4 and it was also in the news so this is nthing new...

   

   

  Btw, wat has chinaman no flush toilet gotta do with this??

  
  i hope its not because he is assuming the driver is a PRC and if he is a PRC he is definitely in the wrong.
• auditor

  13 Mar 12, 11:51

  so police classify this case as what?

  At most the bus driver get a stern warning or lose his job only what

• Brother W. Sunikmaniam

  13 Mar 12, 14:49

  That's d trouble for being a bus drivers insingapapore la dey,in India you board public buses run expect it like boarding a plane.u want smooth then take the auto tricycle taxis