Cyclist, 16, arrested after accident with 74-year-old pedestrian who later dies

SINGAPORE – A 16-year-old cyclist has been arrested for a rash act causing death following an accident involving a 74-year-old man.

The police said they received a call for assistance at Block 741 Yishun Avenue 5 at 11.45am on Sept 15.

The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) took the man, who was a pedestrian, to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital where he later died, said the police.

The male teenager was arrested for the offence of rash act causing death and investigations are ongoing, added the police.

A man who said he is the 74-year-old’s son, made an appeal for eyewitnesses on Facebook on Sept 16.

Tan Bo Xue identified the elderly man as his father, Tan Liang Kwong. He later said that his father had died on Sept 17.

He said the accident took place near a Jollibee outlet in a Caltex petrol station located near the junction of Yishun Avenue 5 and Yishun Street 11.

Block 741 Yishun Avenue 5, where the police were called, is opposite the petrol station.

Tan also thanked a passerby, whom he says called the ambulance for his father, and asked the passerby to contact him.