SINGAPORE - A 77-year-old retired cab driver died after he was hit by a taxi outside Ikea Alexandra last Saturday evening .
The man, Mr Oh Ah Lek, had been shopping with his family at Ikea on Saturday, and when he was crossing the road, he was hit by a taxi driving out from Ikea's drop-off point, reported Chinese-language evening paper Lianhe Wanbao on Wednesday. The police said they were alerted to an accident involving a taxi and the pedestrian along Alexandra Road, towards Telok Blangah Road, at 7.35pm last Saturday.
The pedestrian was conscious when he was taken to National University Hospital, where he subsequently died.Mr Oh's wife told Lianhe Wanbao that he was trapped under the bottom of the taxi after the accident. The driver apparently did not realise what had happened until the couple's son knocked on his taxi to alert him to the accident.
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