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A couple and their young son had a narrow escape after a huge tree fell on their car in Penang Road on Saturday.
The uprooted tree was about seven storeys high and obstructed three lanes of the road, Chinese newspaper Shin Min Daily News reported yesterday.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it responded to a call for assistance in Penang Road near Singapore Shopping Centre at about 5.45pm.
“A boy was assessed by SCDF paramedics,” a spokesman told The New Paper yesterday.
Shin Min said the tree trunk was about a metre thick.
TNP understands it was a raintree and took about three hours to clear.
The family had just left Plaza Singapura and were travelling towards Cavenagh Road when the tree fell on their white Audi.
“I was travelling on the second lane when I heard a loud noise, and I felt something hit the roof of my car,” the driver, who did not want to be named, told Shin Min.
Seconds later, a branch pierced through a window of his car, causing him to stop immediately.
The roof was dented and the windscreen and left front window were badly damaged.
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