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A school van collided with two other cars at the at the junction of Bukit Timah and Cavenagh Road on Monday morning. -- PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
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THIS was one school bus which had seat belts - but none of the students on board had buckled up.
So when it rammed into a traffic light along Bukit Timah Road, mounted a kerb and hit two cars, the passengers were thrown forward.
No lives were lost, but the bus driver and Hwa Chong Institution student Lai Jun Hao, 14, received outpatient treatment for leg injuries. The other seven students were shaken but unhurt.
Speaking while at KK Women's and Children's Hospital on Monday, Jun Hao said he had neither noticed nor been told of the seat belts on the bus.
'I usually just get onto the bus and fall asleep,' he said.
A Hwa Chong Institution spokesman said the school did not charter buses, and that it was for parents and bus drivers to drum into their charges the importance of belting up.
But he conceded that enforcing the practice would be difficult 'because there is no law governing the use of seat belts in buses in the first place'.
The accident comes 1 1/2 weeks after the death of Russell Koh, eight, who - unbelted - was flung out the back of a minibus upon its collision with two cars at the junction of Yio Chu Kang Road and Gerald Drive.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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