SINGAPORE, Nov 14 — A total of five heavy vehicles — a lorry, a trailer, one tipper truck, and two buses — were involved in two separate accidents along a stretch of the Ayer Rajah Expressway on Friday (Nov 13) morning.

The first accident, involving a lorry and two buses, happened at about 6.55am, while the second accident, involving a trailer and tipper truck, occurred at about 8.15am.

Both accidents happened within metres of each other and were in the direction towards the Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE).

A video of the aftermath shows a Malaysia-registered trailer and a tipper truck on the leftmost lane.

Both vehicles left tyre marks on the road surface, and the tipper truck ends up crashing into a barrier.

Tyre marks of both vehicles can be seen on the road surface.

Further ahead — just after the merging lane — two buses are seen stopped along the road shoulder, while a lorry is seen on the leftmost lane behind them.

In response to AsiaOne’s queries, the police said that no injuries were reported in the two accidents.

They added that a 40-year-old male bus driver and a 35-year-old male trailer driver are assisting with ongoing police investigations in relation to the first and second accident respectively.

Of the 15,292 vehicles involved in accidents last year, some 2,455 were either goods van or pick-up; lorry, tipper trucktrailer; or buses.

In a parliamentary reply to Member of Parliament Ng Shi Xuan (Sembawang GRC) on Aug 5, Senior Minister K Shanmugam, who is also Minister for Home Affairs, said that the most common causes of accidents in 2025 were:

Failure to keep a proper lookout (53.4 per cent) Failure to have proper control of the vehicle (11.7 per cent) Changing lanes without due care (8.4 per cent).From January 1, 2027, the number of demerit points that can be accumulated before suspension will drop from 24 to 18.

This comes amid an increase in road fatalities of about five per cent, from 142 deaths in 2024 to 149 in 2025 — the highest within a decade.

Road injuries have also risen by 6.6 per cent from 9,342 in 2024 to 9,955 in 2025. — AsiaOne