The accident happened in the afternoon of April 9, at a construction site in Punggol Road, near the junction of Compassvale Street.The driver of the van jumped out of his vehicle in the nick of time before the crane fell on it.
Information technology engineer Anant Pradhan, 47, said he saw the crane getting loaded up onto a truck when it toppled. He said: “His van had stopped at a red light... He saw the crane toppling, and he was out within a split second. I was about two cars behind him when it happened. Everyone jumped out of their cars.”He said the driver told him that his shoulder and the back of his head hurt. “He said he was in terrible pain,” he added.Housewife Madam Tan, 60, who lives across the road from the accident site, said she was at home when she heard a loud crash.
He said: “We are used to construction sounds here because of the work that is going on, but this was exceptionally loud.Eyewitnesses said there was no one in the cabin of the crane when the accident took place. A sign on the hoardings at the construction site indicated that it is a project by national water agency PUB, operated by construction firm Building Construction Co.
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