One dead, one taken to NUH after four-cab accident outside Gleneagles
A 70-year-old man who was in a taxi died after another taxi crashed into it outside the entrance of Gleneagles Hospital yesterday.
The exact cause of death is not known.
Two other cars were also involved in the accident, which took place along the hospital's service road, the police said, adding that they were alerted to it at 11.21 am.
One of the cabbies, a 62-year-old man, was stabilised by medical staff of the private hospital before he was taken in a conscious state to National University Hospital, a public hospital.
The Straits Times reported that he was driving an SMRT taxi.
FATHER & SON
The other cabby was driving a Trans-Cab vehicle, whose two passengers were said to be a father and son from Indonesia. Both received medical attention at Gleneagles Hospital.
The 70-year-old father, who later died, was heading to the hospital for a check-up for a heart condition.
His son, aged 42, alighted from the taxi before fainting. His father did not get out of the vehicle.
It is understood that the accident happened when the SMRT cabby was going to stop for his passenger to alight.
But instead, it collide with the three other vehicles. - TIMOTHY GOH
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