Driver crushed to death by steel rods

[Toyo]

The 38-year-old driver of this trailer truck was crushed to death by the steel rods he was transporting at about 2pm today (14 Sept) in Jurong.

 

STOMPer Yeow, 43, sent this photo in an MMS at about 2.30pm, saying a driver had been killed.

 

"I saw the rescuers trying to take the body out. I think the steel rods spilled towards him because he applied emergency brake suddenly," Mr Yeow told STOMP.

 

STOMP contacted the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) which said it received a call at 2.19pm about an accident at the junction of Pioneer Road North and Lokyang Way.

 

"A trailer was carrying metal rods. The driver was pinned under the steel rods in his seat.

 

"He was trapped in the seat and SCDF rescuers extricated him from the seat. He was pronounced dead on the spot," a spokesman told STOMP.

 

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/viewPost5435.aspx

[Ahbengdriver]

amen

[Toyo]

can see the whole cabin is crushed

[DarkLord]

Wah lauz... Sibei jialat sia!

[Quantum]

OMG!

can't believe under steel rods the thing is cabin

[Rncw]

just after pioneer circus and turn to pioneer road north....i travel there almost every day...travelling too fast cannot break in time perhaps.

[Route88]

[Toyo]

if there is a car in front it will be crushed as well

[Maddriver]

This is the second accident..

[Toyo]

just after pioneer circus and turn to pioneer road north....i travel there almost every day...travelling too fast cannot break in time perhaps.

 

ic. shld be doing e brake tat caused this

[Toyo]

This is the second accident..

 

oh, didn't know there's another one

[Mzrmazda3]

Wa Lau

[Maddriver]

Yes,it happen few months back at Jurong as well,trailer carrying steel rod I think

[Toyo]

Wah lauz... Sibei jialat sia!

 

Freak accident

[Apollo]

not freak.. too many b@stardf truck drivers in jurong esp port road. alway kena tailgated.

 

time for LTA to install speed delimiters and engine cut-off

[Mcff_1980]

wow.. the driver must have been driving way too fast for a trailer in order for a jam-brake to result in this..

[Nutty]

Goodness... This can be just any scene in Final Destination.

 

R.I.P...

[Try_conti]

for those of us who used Jln Buroh b4 will know ... these monsters really scare the sh1t out of you man ....

 

They are bigger, meaner, FASTER (way much faster) than you. Even when you're at 90, they're still tailgating you. If you jam break in an emergency, you sure die (like in this case). You don't jam break, you also will die sandwiched in between ......

 

I guess speed limiters and engine cut-off is the way to curb these speeding death traps.