Family lodges police report after woman falls from bus

THE family of an 84-year-old woman has filed a police report after she fell from an SBS Transit bus which allegedly moved off while she was getting down at a bus stop.

Madam Yeo Hock Imm, who underwent a procedure to replace her right hip joint at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, is now looking at three to four weeks of recovery in Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital.

'We want to find out what happened - why the driver did that, and drove away,' claimed her son Joseph Tan, 46, who filed the police report on the day of the accident on March 4.

Mr Tan, a pastor, said the family's concern is with making sure something similar does not happen again, and with accountability more than anything else.

This incident is at least the second in recent months where a passenger was injured while taking a public bus.

In the latest incident on March 4, Madam Yeo was heading home to Hougang after visiting the Singapore Buddhist Lodge at around 2.30pm.

She was alighting from an SBS bus plying the service No. 32 route in Rochor to catch another bus and was the third and last person to get off.

She fell to the ground when the bus doors reportedly shut abruptly and the vehicle began to move.

Several people at the bus stop shouted in a bid to get the driver to stop, but the bus continued on its journey.

They managed to contact another of her sons, who quickly arrived and called for an ambulance.

Doctors at Tan Tock Seng Hospital deemed an operation was needed after they had X-rayed and examined her.

Ms Tammy Tan, senior vice-president of corporate communications at SBS Transit, said: 'We are sorry to learn of the injuries sustained by Mr Tan's mother. We have visited her at the hospital and will do our best in assisting her. We have also started investigating the incident and will convey our findings to the family.'

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