5 hurt in collision
The following article was published in the Straits Times on 24 November 1999. 5 hurt in collision. By YEOH EN-LAI. 24 November 1999 Straits Times FIVE people were hurt, three of them seriously, in a chain collision of five heavy vehicles yesterday afternoon. It happened in heavy rain along the Kranji Expressway. On the northbound expressway, traffic tailed back for at least 5 km. From the flyover above, about 50 curious onlookers craned their necks to watch the Singapore Civil Defence Force rescuers in action. The accident happened at around 3 pm, apparently after a lorry carrying computer products stopped in the expressway's extreme left lane under the Choa Chu Kang Road flyover. A bus that ferries factory workers hit the lorry, and then three more lorries piled in. One lorry belongs to Ascent Logistics. The second was a Malaysian-registered trailer, and the last was an empty diesel truck, a 10-wheeler registered to Ming Hup Trading Co. Two people were pinned inside the cab of