SIX people helped rescue a trapped passenger from a van after it collided with a sedan in Yio Chu Kang on Saturday.
The accident involving a silver van and a black car occurred at about 10.40pm at the traffic junction of Yio Chu Kang Road and Buangkok Green, Chinese newspaper Shin Min Daily News reported yesterday.
A 27-year-old manager, Mr Yu, who lives nearby, told Shin Min that he heard a loud sound and went downstairs to see what happened.
He said that the three passengers inside the black car managed to get out.
But the silver van had overturned and, while the two men in the front had crawled out of the window, the person in the back was trapped.
“Kind-hearted members of the public and the driver spent five minutes getting the back door open,” said Mr Yu. “An injured man lay inside and paramedics later got him out.”
Shin Min understands that the car was going straight and the van was about to turn right when the accident happened.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said that it deployed three ambulances to the scene and sent six injured people to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
A man, who declined to be named, told Shin Min that the van driver was his employee and that he had offered a lift to three colleagues home from church.
The driver of the van, a 50-year-old delivery man, told Shin Min yesterday morning that he was discharged from hospital early yesterday.
He said that his two colleagues in the front were still under observation, while the passenger in the back suffered the most severe injuries.
He needed stitches for injuries to his forehead and was in the intensive care unit awaiting surgery.
The police confirmed the accident and are investigating.
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