Five people taken to hospital after multi-vehicle accident on SLE
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Three people were taken to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital and another two to Woodlands Hospital.
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SINGAPORE - Five people were taken to hospital following a multi-vehicle accident on the SLE on the morning of March 14.
It involved two trucks, two lorries and a motorcycle, said the police.
They and the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) were alerted to the accident on the SLE towards the BKE after the Upper Thomson Road exit at about 10am.
The drivers in two lorries were found trapped in their seats. They were rescued using hydraulic rescue equipment, said SCDF.
Three people were taken to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital and another two to Woodlands Hospital. They were two male lorry drivers aged 42 and 37, two male lorry passengers aged 28 and 52, and a 32-year-old male motorcyclist.
All were taken conscious to hospital, said the police.
Photos of the accident posted to Facebook show at least four vehicles involved in the accident, which blocked all three lanes on the road.
One lorry is seen to have flipped over onto its side. Another lorry, with its front caved in, appears to have crashed into the road divider.
A video posted on the Roads.sg page on Facebook shows a chain of heavy vehicles on the left lane of the expressway. A large truck rear-ends a smaller lorry, which in turn crashes into the back of another lorry, which subsequently flips onto its side as it lands in the next lane.
The first lorry to be hit is sent reeling into the road divider.
Police investigations are ongoing.
A post on the LTA Traffic News X account on the accident noted that congestion stretched till Lentor Avenue.
In its annual road traffic statistics, the Traffic Police said the number of traffic accidents resulting in injuries went up, from 7,053 cases in 2024 to 7,560 cases in 2025.
