A boy was hit by an SMRT bus in Woodlands on Monday afternoon. (Yahoo! file photo)
(Updated at 7:11pm: Boy's age corrected.)
A schoolboy was hit by an SMRT bus in Woodlands on Monday.
SMRT bus service 912 was turning left at the junction of Woodlands Avenue 6 and Woodlands Drive 53 when it knocked a 9-year-old boy down.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said they received a call at 2:53pm informing them of an accident and they then dispatched assistance to the scene.
The boy sustained a fracture in his right ankle and was conscious when he was sent to the KK Hospital at 3:09pm, said an SCDF spokesperson.
An SMRT spokesperson told Yahoo! Singapore that SMRT’s Bus Operation Command Centre (BOCC) was notified of the accident at 3:00pm and immediately activated an ambulance. There were about 28 passengers on board the bus during the time of incident and no passenger was injured.
“The Service Leader has been suspended from duty,” said SMRT.
They will be assisting the family in every way they can, SMRT added.
The incident comes four days after an SBS bus hit and killed a woman crossing the road at the junction of Sengkang East Way and Compassvale Road.
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