SINGAPORE - A motorcyclist was taken to hospital after she was run over by a trailer truck on Friday morning.The Singapore Civil Defence Force said the 30-year-old victim was conscious when she was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
In a dashcam video posted on Facebook by Mr Fong Chun Cheong, a trailer truck can be seen going forward slowly at a traffic junction, with the driver seemingly unaware that there is a motorcycle in front of it. It hits the motorcycle, which topples to the right of the vehicle. The trailer continues moving, with the motorcyclist going under the vehicle.Retrigger of my PTSD symptoms: Today on or about 11.25am after my karate training session with Sensei, we witnessed a terrible road traffic accident as seen in the footage. Everyone was honking at the trailer but the driver still wanna reverse. Told Sensei that I am going to help; he told me go n be calm.
Mr Fong said he rushed out of his car as he wanted to stop the trailer driver from reversing to prevent further injury to the woman who was underneath the vehicle. “I was very worried when I saw what happened. My first thought was to save the person’s life,” said the funeral director and geomancer.“The motorcyclist was conscious when she was pinned under the vehicle, and she told me that it was very hot as she was stuck near the engine,” said Mr Fong. “I immediately told the driver to turn off his engine and waited for the ambulance to come before we left the scene.
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