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SINGAPORE – Seven people were taken to hospital after a bus accident near Changi Airport Terminal 2 on Sunday afternoon (Feb 2), with the 62-year-old bus driver having to be extricated from the bus by rescuers in a complex operation lasting 45 minutes.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a Facebook post it was alerted to the accident at T2’s bus interchange at 12.36pm.
It said that the bus, which is operated by Go-Ahead Singapore, was found crushed against a concrete pillar.
“The front of the bus was badly crushed inwards, pinning the driver to his seat,” SCDF said.
SCDF said firefighters from Changi Fire Station and the Airport Emergency Service (AES) had to use hydraulic cutting tools to cut open the driver’s window to let paramedics provide him with an intravenous drip.
“Due to the complexity of the rescue operation, rescuers from the SCDF’s elite Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (Dart) had to be deployed to the scene,” it added.
“The Dart Rescue Vehicle was utilised to pull the bus slightly from the pillar but without aggravating the driver’s injury so as to provide the rescuers a bit of operating space.”
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