The bus captain had applied the emergency brakes after a motorcyclist in front of the bus stopped suddenly.
\n\nA 68-year-old man was injured after the bus he was on came to a sudden brake and he was thrown from his seat.
\n\nAccording to a report by Shin Min Daily News, the incident took place on Sep. 1 along Woodlands Avenue 7 towards Woodlands Interchange, near the Seagate Singapore International Headquarters.
\n\nSpeaking to the Chinese language newspaper, the man's son, surnamed Goh, said his father was travelling home on Bus service 858 when the incident happened.
\n\n"My father was sitting near the front of the bus when it suddenly braked, and he was thrown from his seat and lost consciousness for a while," he said.
\n\nAccording to Goh, his father was later woken by two passengers and the bus driver, who checked on him and helped clean his wounds.
\n\nHe said his father suffered a head injury and significant swelling around his eye.
\n\nHe was unable to walk after the incident and was carried to an ambulance on a stretcher before being taken to the hospital for treatment.
\n\nPhotos provided by Goh showed his father was lying in a hospital bed…
Original source: https://mothership.sg/
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