Motorcyclist and 9-year-old pillion rider killed in hit-and-run accident on PIE, truck driver arrested

SINGAPORE – A 39-year-old motorcyclist and his nine-year-old pillion rider died in a hit-and-run accident on the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) on Saturday morning. 

When contacted, the police said they were alerted at about 10.10am to an accident involving a truck and a motorcycle along the PIE towards Changi Airport before the Jalan Bahar exit.

The truck driver, a 68-year-old man, was later arrested for careless driving causing death, added the police.

Both the motorcyclist and the pillion rider were pronounced dead at the scene by a paramedic, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force.

On Wednesday, 27-year-old motorcyclist Muhammad Nurhilmi Atan was

killed after an accident involving a lorry and a minibus

on the East Coast Parkway. 

A male passenger of the minibus was arrested and

charged on Friday

with causing grievous hurt by performing a rash act. He had allegedly jumped out of the moving minibus, causing a nearby lorry to come to a halt. Mr Nurhilmi’s motorcycle subsequently collided with the rear of the lorry.